Denise Gatard (1908–1991) was a French ceramicist associated with the post-war renewal of artistic ceramics in France. She studied at the École des Arts Appliqués in Paris and later at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, before beginning her career in the workshop of the master lacquer artist Jean Dunand, where she developed a refined understanding of surface effects and the use of gold powder. The sister of the renowned ceramicist Georges Jouve, she established her own practice after the Second World War, creating vases, lamps and decorative objects characterized by restrained, sculptural forms and subtle glazes, often enriched with golden or metallic tones. Widowed after the death of her first husband, the Resistance member Jean Gatard, she later married the decorator and dealer Maurice Pré, who helped promote and distribute her work within the Parisian decorative arts milieu of the 1940s and 1950s. Through the elegance of her forms and the richness of her glazes, Denise Gatard belongs to the generation of ceramicists who contributed to redefining the role of ceramics within the French decorative arts of the post-war period.