Mathurin MEHEUT (1882-1958) - Lot 206

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Mathurin MEHEUT (1882-1958) - Lot 206
Mathurin MEHEUT (1882-1958) Sea service set 6 plates and 1 oval platter Manufacture Henriot Quimper, circa 1925 Signed with the monogram "MM" and "HenRiot Quimper" on the reverse of each piece. Dish: 22 x 50.5 cm Plate : Diam. 25 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 an aesthetic and commercial success. After spending two years at the Roscoff biological station between 1910 and 1912, Mathurin Méheut published the book "Etude de la mer", aimed at decorators and craftsmen. He drew inspiration from it himself, but was not content to simply magnify Brittany's seabed. Indeed, after winning the Albert Kahn Foundation's "Around the World" grant in 1913, he embarked on a journey that took him to Japan and as far as Honolulu. There, 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 coast to the Pacific Ocean...
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