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Rene
Buthaud (1886 - 1986)
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Trained
as a painter at the École des Beaux Arts in Bordeaux, he was influenced
there while working with clay, which became his primary medium in 1918.
He designed simple stoneware forms, made for him by local potters, and
used crackle glazes with which to decorate them.
He was also influenced by African, tribal art, evident in those pieces
where he used lusters or what he called "peau de serpent" (snakeskin).
Many of his most well-known pieces are painted with supine female nudes.
After 1940, he concentrated on images of women, in the form of stylized
odalisques, idealized female figures, and mythological goddesses. Under
contract to Galerie Rouard in Paris, he exhibited there from 1928 to 1965.
During this period, he often signed his works "J. Doris".
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