Marie Lucie NESSI-VALTAT (1910-1992) Circular earthenware dish with abstract graphite decoration in shades of white, yellow and black. Signed and dated 54 on reverse H. Height: 3.5 cm Diameter: 27.5 cm Note: From 1928, she frequented the studio of Louis-François Biloul and André Lhote and enrolled at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. She rubbed shoulders with fellow students and friends Léonard Foujita, Jean Hélion and Moïse Kisling. In 1948, she founded a ceramics studio, which she closed in 1954.