Mathurin MEHEUT (1882-1958) - Lot 204

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Mathurin MEHEUT (1882-1958) - Lot 204
Mathurin MEHEUT (1882-1958) Service de la Mer pitcher Manufacture Henriot Quimper, circa 1925 Signed on the reverse with the monogram "MM" and "HenRiot Quimper". Minor wear to base Height 20 cm Diameter 21 cm Mathurin Méheut, a painter of Brittany and a prolific designer, worked with the Henriot factory in Quimper from 1920 to 1950. In the early 1920s, he designed his "service de la mer", which quickly became a commercial and aesthetic success. After spending two years at the Roscoff biological station between 1910 and 1912, Mathurin Méheut published the book "Etude de la mer", intended for decorators and craftsmen. He drew inspiration from it himself, but was not content to simply magnify Brittany's seabed. In 1913, he won the "Around the World" grant from the Albert Kahn Foundation and set off on a journey that took him to Japan and as far as Honolulu. On the spot, he continued his observations of marine life, and this polychrome earthenware service appears as a synthesis of his research, illustrated by species present from the Breton coasts to the Pacific Ocean...
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