1950-1956

Painted and enamelled earthenware

Mado Jolain produced her first pieces on rue d'Alésia in Paris in 1946 with her husband, the painter Louis Legrand. They are both particularly attracted by popular art in the most often utilitarian forms. From 1948, she exhibited at the Galerie Denise Bretau, then she participated in 1948 in the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs. In 1950, the couple moved to Montrouge and Mado Jolain designed increasingly sought-after pieces in terms of colors and compositions, pictorial and sculptural. The highly stylized figurative motifs that she employed in her early days were replaced by an increasingly abstract decoration. The enamels are spread out in large shaded flat areas on a fluid covered with white enamel. Mado Jolain ceased its activity in 1970.