#henrirapin

"Tropiques" monumental jar and cover, Henri Rapin, 1937 (form c. 1925), Minneapolis Institute of Art: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture

ovoid body decorated with continuous tropical landscape depicting distant mountains and sailboats, stylized palms, exotic birds and butterflies; capped with cover in matching blue glaze Size: 22 1/2 x 15 x 15 in. (57.2 x 38.1 x 38.1 cm) Medium: Polychrome pastel impasto glazes on porcelain

Rapin No. 8, Henri Rapin, 1926, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture

Oviform with slightly swollen neck with everted rim on tapering cylindrical foot, covered in a white glaze, over which a dark and pale blue segmented curving linear decoration, with small areas filled in dark blue. Although the Sèvres factory is noted for its eighteenth and early nineteenth century ceramics, the firm continued to manufacture designs by contemporary artists, including many pieces in the Art Deco style of the 1920s and 1930s. Henri Rapin, director of art projects at the Sèvres factory between 1920 and 1934, designed the forms of several pieces, then collaborated on the decoration with contemporary artists. Little is known about the designer of the abstracted floral decoration on this vase, Odartchenko, who worked at Sèvres for a short time beginning in 1925. The decoration on this vase was executed by Prosper-Joseph Walter who worked at Sèvres from 1919 to 1928. Size: 17 3/8 x 6 1/2 in. (44.13 x 16.51 cm) Medium: Faience