Roger Guerin - Stylised Pelican - Art Deco sculpture in sandstone (from Bouffioulx)

Art Deco sculpture in salt-glazed stoneware depicting a pelican, created by Roger Guérin around 1925. Bibliography: this sculpture is reproduced on page 80 of the book "Au gré du grès - De l'Art Nouveau à l'Art Déco - Roger Guérin & Edgard Aubry" by Stéphane Pignolet, Cécile Schaack, and Inge Taillie, published in 2007 by the Musée Le Clockarium. Biography: Roger Guérin (1896-1954) was a renowned Belgian ceramist (from Bouffioulx) of the 20th century, particularly during the Art Deco period, and a friend of Edgard Aubry. He was born in Belgium in 1896 and showed a keen interest in ceramics from a young age. He enrolled at the University of Work in Charleroi, where he took pottery classes with Willem DELSAUX. Transitioning from the Art Nouveau period to Art Deco (between 1915 and 1945), he created vases and sculptures in "salt-glazed stoneware" in a single firing (1300°). He skillfully evolved within both artistic styles of his time. His work is comparable to that of French ceramists such as Auguste Delaherche, Pierre Adrien Dalpayrat, Emile Lenoble, Léon Pointu, Ernest Chaplet, Decoeur, Paul Jeanneney, and Jean Carries. From 1934 to 1939, he was appointed PROFESSOR at the Higher School of Decorative Arts of La Cambre in Brussels. Perfect in his creations, he was contacted for numerous artistic collaborations and produced pieces for recognised artists and sculptors (both Belgian and foreign) such as Marcel Wolfers, Cris Agterberg (Amsterdam School in the Netherlands), Thierry Van Rijswijck, Domien Ingels, Cris Lebeau (Amsterdam School in the Netherlands), Angelo Hecq... Vases with wrought iron mounts were the result of collaboration with Fernand Carion, creator of lamp mounts and bases for the French crystal manufacturer Muller Frères Lunéville. He participated in numerous exhibitions and notably won the silver medal at the INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF DECORATIVE AND MODERN ARTS IN PARIS in 1925. His recognition...