Biography
Suzanne Ramié, who trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, acquired a defunct ceramics factory in Vallauris with her husband, Georges Ramié, which they ran under the name Madoura. Madoura, an acronym for “Maison Douly Ramié,” opened in 1938 and is particularly well known today as the manufacturer of Pablo Picasso’s ceramics. Suzanne Ramié, née Douly, learned the art of preparing ceramic glazes from the long-established Vallauris ceramist Jean-Baptiste Chiapello and is one of the central artistic figures in the avant-garde ceramics of the postwar period. Ramié combined the aesthetics of traditional Provençal functional ceramics with a modern, contemporary design language. In 1948, she began a close collaboration with Pablo Picasso, who, among other things, used Suzanne Ramié’s form designs.
