Les céramiques d’atelier, un savoir-faire francilien, at Galerie Vauclair, in collaboration with researcher Florence Slitine, for the 17th Parcours de la Céramique, from September 24 to October 26, 2024

Galerie Vauclair presents its new exhibition “Les céramiques d’atelier, un savoir-faire francilien”. Laurence and Denis Vauclair-Rouquette have decided to work with researcher Florence Slitine to stage the launch of her book: La céramique d’art en Île-de-France, Manufactures et ateliers privés autour de Paris (1850-1950), éditions Mare et Martin, Paris, 2024. The launch of this book was a fitting occasion for a major retrospective that will run until the end of October.

Accompanied from the outset by researchers, experts and students of Art History, Galerie Vauclair celebrates the very essence of its profession, which is the perpetual learning of the provenance, dating and quality of the objects it offers. Among these professional encounters that have become friends of the heart is Florence Slitine, PhD in History and director of Sèvres, the magazine of the Société des Amis du musée national de Céramique. Laurence and Florence first met over thirty years ago. At the time, Laurence was a young antique dealer at the Saint-Ouen flea market, while Florence was beginning her research into the ceramists of the Paris region. The two enthusiasts met again and again at conferences at the Musée de Sèvres, among other places, and a friendship was born of these artistic and intellectual connivances.

As for Florence, she built up the legitimacy of these workshops, largely unknown to the general public, by working for many years at the Manufacture and then at the Musée de Sèvres. Her long work of collecting, archiving and studying shows that the world of research is like the Galerie Vauclair’s work as an antiquarian: patient and enthusiastic. This exhibition presents pieces of rare innovation, all from the Vauclair collection.