Maurice Marinot (1882-1960)

Professions: Painter

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  MAURICE MARINOT (1882-1960)

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  MAURICE MARINOT (1882-1960)

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  MAURICE MARINOT (1882-1960)

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  MAURICE MARINOT (1882-1960)

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Maurice Marinot Biography

(b Troyes, 20 March 1882; d Troyes, 8 Feb 1960). French glassmaker and painter. Although he trained as a painter and exhibited with the Fauves at the Salon d’Automne in 1905, he developed an enthusiasm for glass after visiting a glass factory at Bar-sur-Seine in 1911. At first he designed wares and enamelled plain glass with graceful figures and floral designs combined with such decorative motifs as rosettes and palmettes. He considered himself an opponent of the Art Nouveau style and was closely associated with the international trend towards an austere, decorative style. The architect André Mare (1887–1932) invited him to take part in the Maison Cubiste organized by the Puteaux group, which was presented at the Salon d’Automne of 1912, in which such artists as Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Roger de La Fresnaye and Marie Laurencin participated. His work was noticed by the art dealer André Hébrard who regularly exhibited Marinot’s glass at his gallery in the Rue Royale, Paris. From 1920 Marinot began to create blown glass, a technique in which he became supremely successful. In 20 years he produced over 2000 pieces (e.g. bottle and stopper, c. 1925; London, V&A). The variety of his work is extraordinary: his first pieces were transparent, while later coloured vases were created by sandwiching a layer of opaque, coloured glass between sheets of clear, colourless glass. Some items were decorated further with cut, engraved and acid-etched geometric designs (see FRANCE, fig. 72), while others contained trapped air bubbles or swirls of colour. Each object was therefore unique, and, although most were functional (jugs, vases and bowls), they were often abstract in form. Marinot’s work was highly acclaimed at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes of 1925 in Paris. In 1937 the Bar-sur-Seine Glassworks was destroyed by fire, and due to ill-health Marinot was forced to abandon his work in glass and thereafter devoted himself to painting and drawing.

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