Lot 180
ALEXANDER GOUDIE FOR LA MUSEE DE LA FAIENCE, QUIMPER
'AIGRETTE' TAZZA
Auction: 14 November 2007 at 11:00 GMT
Description
hand-painted ceramic, decorated with a seagull design, signed and dated '97
Dimensions
27cm diameter
Footnote
Literature: 'Alexander Goudie Ceramique', Bernard Jules Verlingue, pub. La Musee de la Faience, Quimper, 1997
Note: This lot was a trial piece, made to assess size and colour before production commenced. It is signed and dated and acquired directly from the artist.
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.