Ceramic exposition at Nérolium (see also Pic990006), Vallauris 1955. The exhibitions were held from 1946. The agricultural cooperative Nérolium was a distillery. Its name came from néroli, essential oil from the distillation of the flower of the bitter orange blossom once in a year in May.

Visitors gather for the 1955 ceramic exposition at the Nérolium cooperative in Vallauris, a former distillery for neroli oil. The building’s entrance is adorned with large, linocut-style posters from past exhibitions advertising "POTERIES," "FLEURS," and "PARFUMS." Flanking the doorway, a smaller poster announces the current "EXPOSITION 55," featuring "PICASSO & LES POTIERS DE VALLAURIS." Guests in period attire stand on the steps, while lush, palm-like plants frame the foreground.

Artworks:

Clockwise: "Exposition Vallauris 1955". Bloch.I:1266; Geiser/Baer:1030; Czwiklitzer:15
"Exposition Vallauris 1955". Bloch.I:1268; Czwiklitzer:17
"Exposition Vallauris 1955". Bloch.I:1267; Czwiklitzer:16
"Exposition Vallauris 1951". Czwiklitzer:8
"Exposition Poteries
Fleurs
Parfums", 1948. Bloch.I:1259; Czwiklitzer:1
"Exposition Vallauris 1954". Czwiklitzer:12, Bloch.I: 1263
"Exposition Vallauris 1952", Bloch.I:1257; Czwiklitzer:11

Abbreviations: see Bibliography

Keywords:

Ceramics, Exhibition

Filename:

pic551489.jpg

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