Roger GUERIN (1896-1954) Glazed ceramic boxer dish.

Enameled ceramic boxer dish by Roger GUERIN (1896-1954), signed and numbered on the back.
Roger Guérin was a Belgian ceramist of the Art Deco period, born in 1896 in Jumet and died in 1954 in Bouffioulx.
He studied chemistry at the Université du Travail in Charleroi, and took classes with Willem Delsaux. Trained on the wheel at the Albert Gilles pottery workshops, where he worked alongside Edgard Aubry, and at the Grégoire-Bailleux workshops in Châtelet. He also took several courses at Sèvres. In 1918, he joined the workshop of his former teacher at Charleroi University, Willem Delsaux, l'Escarboucle, which he had opened in 1911 in Bouffioulx. He marries his daughter Camille Delsaux. His stoneware is signed R. Guerin. In 1919, the Poteries Roger Guerin cooperative is founded. Birth of his son Jules Guérin. In 1929, a name change is made: his company becomes Société Anonyme des Grès de Bouffioulx, in which he collaborates with several artists. His works are signed Guérin. From 1930 to 1947, he taught at the Ecole Industrielle Commerciale et de Dessin de Châtelet. In 1932, he left the Société des Grès de Bouffioulx to set up his own business. He taught at the Institut Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de la Cambre in Brussels. In 1935, the S.A. was dissolved. In 1938, he set up a new company, S.A. Grès de Bouffioulx. After the Second World War, he expanded his business with his son, who turned stoneware and developed industrial and architectural ceramics. In 1951, he created a 3rd S.A. (Société Anonyme Grès de Bouffioulx). Roger Guérin died in 1954 in Bouffioulx; his wife and son took over management of the company, which went bankrupt in 1970.
Roger Guérin is a great name in Belgian Art Deco ceramics. Most of his work consists of ball vases, geometric or faceted vases and sculptures. His preferred material is stoneware with a high-fire salt glaze. He started out in the Art Nouveau style, then evolved into the Art Deco style. International recognition follows his presence at the 1925 Paris International Exhibition of Industrial and Modern Decorative Arts. Numerous artistic collaborations with sculptors and metalworkers. Several of his works were acquired by King Albert and can be found in Belgian, Dutch, Italian and American museums.

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