Roger Guérin, stylized Art Deco fish, high-fire salt-glazed stoneware sculpture, Bouffioulx ca 1925

Rare sandstone fish sculpture produced by Roger Guérin in Bouffioulx (Belgium), unsigned.

Similar sculptures can be seen in "Au gré du grès - De l'Art Nouveau à l'Art Déco - Roger Guérin & Egard Aubry" by Stéphane Pignolet, Cécile Schaack, and Inge Taillie - published in 2007 by the "Musée Le Clockarium".

Biography:

Roger Guérin (1896-1954) was a renowned Belgian ceramist (Bouffioulx) of the 20th century, particularly from the Art Deco period onward. He was a friend of Edgard Aubry. Born in Belgium in 1896, he showed a keen interest in ceramics from a very young age. He enrolled at the Charleroi Labour University, where he took pottery classes with Willem Delsaux. Moving from Art Nouveau to Art Deco (between 1915 and 1945), he created vases and sculptures in "high-fire stoneware" fired in a single firing (1300°C). He thus skillfully navigated both artistic styles of his time. From 1934 to 1939, he was a professor at the Higher School of Decorative Arts in Cambre, Brussels. Perfect in his achievements, he will be contacted for numerous artistic collaborations and will produce pieces for renowned artists (Belgian and foreign) such as Marcel Wolfers, Cris Agterberg (Amsterdam School in the Netherlands), Thierry Van Rijswijck, Domien Ingels, Cris Lebeau (Amsterdam School in the Netherlands), Angelo Hecq... The vases with wrought iron mounts are the result of a collaboration with François Carion, creator of lighting fixtures and lamp bases for the French crystal manufacturer Muller Lunéville frères.

He participated in numerous exhibitions and notably obtained the silver medal at the INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF MODERN INDUSTRIAL AND DECORATIVE ARTS IN PARIS in 1925. His recognition being international, he was found in 1947 at the JENSEN GALLERY in NEW YORK.

His preferred forms are: the spherical vase, faceted and geometric (quite timeless), and sculpture. His work is comparable to that of Delaherche, Dalpayrat, Lenoble, Pointu...