ALEXANDER GOUDIE FOR LA MUSEE DE LA FAIENCE, QUIMPER
'LE MARIN'
£1,000
Auction: 14 November 2007 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Hand-painted ceramic figure, limited edition 9/100, signed, bears painted makers marks and inscription by the artist, 'Head and re-touching by my hand/ Goudie'
Dimensions
51cm high
Footnote
Literature: 'Alexander Goudie Ceramique', Bernard Jules Verlingue, pub. La Musee de la Faience, Quimper, 1997
Exhibited: 'Goudie Ceramique’, The Musee de la Faience, Quimper, France 1998
Note: Alexander Goudie (1933-2004), was one of Scotland's foremost contemporary artists. He was born in Paisley in Renfrewshire. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art, where he received the Newbery medal.
On a trip to France, he visited Brittany, where he met Marie-Renée Dorval. They married in 1962 and her education in art and Breton culture helped establish him as a leading 'Breton' artist and Brittany became one of his main sources of inspiration. He exhibited widely in Brittany and in 1966 for the first time he exhibited his Breton paintings in Edinburgh.
In 1987, he was commissioned to design the interiors and artworks for the ship ‘Bretagne,’ flagship of the Brittany Ferries Company. His work brought together landscapes, small scenes & still lifes. The tables of the first class dining room were divided by paintings of food hanging at right angles. The originality of the scheme and the large number of works on display was recieved with great acclaim at the time.
As well as being a painter, he was also a sculptor of great boldness and originality and which is also reflected in his ceramics. In 1997, he created figures of Breton fishermen and of women in traditional costume and ceramic wares depicting Breton life in conjunction with the Pottery Museum in Quimper. The figures in this sale were purchased from the opening exhibition.