Camille Le Tallec

Camille Le Tallec (November 9, 1906 - August 21, 1991) was a French porcelain craftsman and artist.

Biography

Camille Le Tallec was born in Paris from breton of Lorient and picard descendants. He graduated in 1929 from the prestigious École du Louvre in Paris with a thesis on the Nast porcelain of the 18th century. He then took over, in 1930, the familial hand-painted porcelain studio founded in Belleville (Paris) early in the century.

Rapidly, Le Tallec decided to continue in the tradition of the Vincennes porcelain and Sèvres porcelain, expanding the small and local business, the Atelier Le Tallec. In thirty years, the studio created hand-painted porcelain tablewares for famous individuals such as HM Elizabeth II of England, HM Mohammed V and HM Hassan II of Morroco, the Ville de Paris or the French Republic, amongst others.

In 1961, Le Tallec started a fruitful collaboration the with silver and jewelry firm Tiffany & Co which led in 1990 to the Atelier Le Tallec's incorporation into the American company, one year before his death in Paris. Tiffany's and Le Tallec designed successful original and private porcelain patterns that can be seen both at the Viaduc des Arts of the promenade plantée in Paris's XIIe arrondissement and in all Tiffany's stores in the United-States.

Over 60 years, Le Tallec has maintained traditional hand-painted porcelain. He preserved and revisited about 250 original and historical patterns signed by the Le Tallec's marks. Atelier Le Tallec was inducted as a member of the Grands Ateliers de France (the fifty best studios in France) in 2000.

Le Tallec also acquired from 1935 to 1955 prestigious pieces of European porcelains. ["Un collectionneur de céramiques" par Georges Lefebvre dans "L'Estampille - L'Objet d'art" nº239 septembre 1990, p76-83.] His exceptional collection was dispersed by auction in 1990, and some masterpieces acquired by international museums.

He was a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur appointed in 1976 by a schoolmate of his: Edgar Faure, then president of the French National Assembly.

Bibliography

* "Atelier Le Tallec Hand Painting Limoges Porcelain", Schiffer Publishing, 2003 (ISBN 0-7643-1708-3)

References

ource

*fr This article is partially or entirely translated from the article [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Le_Tallec Camille Le Tallec] on the french Wikipédia.

Links

[http://www.atelierletallec.com/ Atelier Le Tallec website]