Archive 2002  
 

Broken Pots,
from Cezanne to Marcel Provence

"A unique excavation site"

from 15 June to 30 September 2002

Archaeologists searching for the objects (now lost) painted by Cézanne in his still lifes, instead discovered many items in the Studio's waste heap, methodically assembled by Marcel Provence between 1921 and 1951 when he lived on the site.

Information: Cezanne studio
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An exhibition presented by the Municipal
Archaelogical Department and the Cézanne Studio.

More than, items and wrappers have been found: coins, medecines, toilet products and articles, paints, writing instruments, clothing and personal effects, food wrappers and above all crokery, with a very representative sample of contemporary production: faïence pottery from the norrthern part of France, the Côte d'Or and the Lyon regions (Luneville, Sarreguemines and Digoin, Saint-Amand Nord, Longchamp, Labrut Frères, Gien, Givors), the Paris region (Creil and Montereau), and especially from Provence (Vallauris and the Huveaune valley).

These objects also remind us of the vital part played by Marsel Provence in the revivial of the Moustiers workshops, and his close relationships with a number of local faïence potters such as La Poussardière, Louis Sicard and the Gastine sisters in Aubagne, Léon Sagy, the master potter of Apt, and Marius bertrand of Varages.