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René Buthaud (1886 - 1986) was one of the most influential artists of the Art Deco style. After studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, he began working with ceramics in 1919 and exhibited at the Salon d'automne in Paris in 1920. From 1923 he headed the ceramics workshop of the Atelier Primavera in Sainte-Radegonde near Tours, a studio that was set up in 1912 in the Parisian department store Au Printemps to promote modern design. He returned to Bordeaux in 1926, founded his own studio and was appointed professor of painting and applied arts at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1931. Until the 1960s he produced ceramics that were sold through Rouard in Paris. He died shortly before his 100th birthday.