Art & Statues
Art Deco Style Cubist Ceramic Sculpture "The Grape Picker" by Pascal Jarrion
Art Deco Style Cubist Ceramic Sculpture "The Grape Picker" by Pascal Jarrion
"The Grape Picker" is an original ceramic sculpture by French artist Pascal Jarrion, depicting a laboring figure caught in a moment of pause, one arm raised and resting near the bowed head as if wiping away the heat of the day. The compact, faceted body is built from interlocking angular planes, giving the figure a strong sense of physical weight and effort.
Pascal's distinctive style brings together Cubism, Futurism, classical sculpture, and Art Deco, and "The Grape Picker" channels that vocabulary into a quietly narrative subject rooted in rural labor and harvest. Small carved details, including crossed lacing marks at the base of the figure's legs, add a handmade, almost folk art quality to the otherwise rigorously geometric construction.
The sculpture is fully realized in the round, and its two principal views tell distinctly different parts of the story. From the front, the figure appears weary and introspective, the raised arm and downturned face suggesting a brief rest between rows. From the back, that same gesture reads as a rounded, vessel-like form, echoing the baskets and containers associated with the grape harvest itself.
The ceramic surface carries a warm, weathered patina in soft grays, muted taupe, and golden ochre, a finish that lends the piece an aged, sun-worn character appropriate to its subject. Cylindrical, boot-like forms at the base ground the figure firmly, their crossed lacing details adding a touch of tactile, hand-worked realism to the sculpture's otherwise abstracted construction.
Measuring 17 inches high by 5.5 inches wide and 5 inches deep, "The Grape Picker" is a compact yet substantial piece well suited to a console, shelf, or pedestal. It is mounted on a black base and signed by Pascal Jarrion.
