She left the school of Fine Arts in Lyon in 1913 to
enter the workshop of the glass master NICOD. In 1920, she settled in Paris
where she drew sketches for stained glass windows in the workshop of Maurice
DENIS, then in 1921 she completed her training as a ceramist at the National
Manufacture in Sèvres. In 1922 she went back to Lyon to take over the
management of her father’s ceramics workshop, Henri PICARD. Until 1951 she
made big stoneware vases mainly meant to urbanism, large fountains, medallions,
decorative plates and panels, and pieces intended for garden art. While the
production of architectural pieces semms to have been relatively "standard",
one can notice in her vases a genuine personal touch which would undoubtedly
make her to-day still famous, had those vases not been so few.
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