Rene Buthaud
Rene Buthaud trained at l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux. In 1919, after establishing himself as a ceramics "dabbler", painter and engraver working in the academic style, he began to devote most of his time to ceramics. Buthaud favored stylized, firmly-outlined foliage and female nudes presented in vivid jazz-age colors. He also incorporated primitive, classical, and naturalistic themes into his work, always simplifying and streamlining. While the first three decades of his ceramics embody chic modernism, his later work seems stylistically nearer to the engravings and paintings he completed before 1919.