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Jean BESNARD was the son of the painter Albert Besnard ( 1849-1934 ) and the sculptor Charlotte Aubray ( 1855-1931 ). Potter innovator, Jean Besnard was known for his vases with a surface carving or a printed decoration.

His methods and his innovative decorations contain a quantity of techniques of application. He liked the contact with the paste. He maked incisions in the material for a linear or abstract decoration, inlays it, used the knurl for his ribbons or spirals, imitated fabrics, leathers, sculpted it for the creation of jewels, figurines or masks or still by the contrast of two more or less granular materials or checkmates and brilliant he played on the oppositions and the correspondences.

The white enamel "wrinkled" by granular aspect which he used to provoke subtle variations was his brandmark which made him famous . We also know his production of some pieces in earthenware " black and platine " of 1927-28. As a matter of fact this famous potter wanted to translate the popular pottery with a modern sensibility.

His potter's work was determinedly turned to the modernity, he is printed by simplicity, of sobriety, humor and sprang up from the spectacle which offers us the nature. It is necessary to note that Jean Besnard also created objects inspired by the "primitive" arts or "first ones"; jewels, masks or figurines show it.