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Auction archive: Lot number 262

Lucie Rie

Design
25 Apr 2013
Estimate
£14,000 - £18,000
ca. US$21,435 - US$27,560
Price realised:
£22,500
ca. US$34,450
Auction archive: Lot number 262

Lucie Rie

Design
25 Apr 2013
Estimate
£14,000 - £18,000
ca. US$21,435 - US$27,560
Price realised:
£22,500
ca. US$34,450
Beschreibung:

Lucie Rie Oval bowl circa 1976 Porcelain, yellow and manganese glazes with sgraffito band. 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in) high, 15.2 cm (5 7/8 in) wide Impressed with artist's seal.
Provenance Private collection, London Phillips Auctioneers, London, 'Lucie Rie/Hans Coper Masterworks', 20 June 2000, lot 77 Exhibited ‘Masterworks: Lucie Rie and Hans Coper’, Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum, Royal Pump Rooms, 21 April-3 June 2001 (from collection on temporary loan, 2001-2002) Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Gallery 10 and the Industrial Gallery, June 2002-June 2004 (from collection on temporary loan, June 2002-June 2004) ‘Masterpieces of Studio Pottery’, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, 29 January-15 May 2005 (from collection on temporary loan, 26 August 2004-31 July 2007) ‘Lucie Rie & Hans Coper Art Alive is Always Modern’, MIMA, Middlesbrough, 28 November 2008-15 February 2009 (from collection on temporary loan, 1 February 2008-21 August 2012) Literature John Houston ed., Lucie Rie a survey of her life and work, exh. cat., Crafts Council and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1981, p. 72, item 90 for a similar example Tony Birks, Lucie Rie Yeovil, 2009, p. 106 for a similar example Lucie Rie – A Retrospective, exh. cat., The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2010, p. 97, item 53 for a similar example Artist Bio Lucie Rie Austrian • 1902 - 1995 Dame Lucie Rie studied under Michael Powolny at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna before immigrating to London in 1938. In London she started out making buttons for the fashion industry before producing austere, sparsely decorated tableware that caught the attention of modernist interior decorators. Eventually she hit her stride with the pitch-perfect footed bowls and flared vases for which she is best-known today. She worked in porcelain and stoneware, applying glaze directly to the unfired body and firing only once. She limited decoration to incised lines, subtle spirals and golden manganese lips, allowing the beauty of her thin-walled vessels to shine through. In contrast with the rustic pots of English ceramicist Bernard Leach who is considered an heir to the Arts and Crafts movement, collectors and scholars revere Rie for creating pottery that was in dialogue with the design and architecture of European Modernism. View More Works

Auction archive: Lot number 262
Auction:
Datum:
25 Apr 2013
Auction house:
Phillips
London
Beschreibung:

Lucie Rie Oval bowl circa 1976 Porcelain, yellow and manganese glazes with sgraffito band. 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in) high, 15.2 cm (5 7/8 in) wide Impressed with artist's seal.
Provenance Private collection, London Phillips Auctioneers, London, 'Lucie Rie/Hans Coper Masterworks', 20 June 2000, lot 77 Exhibited ‘Masterworks: Lucie Rie and Hans Coper’, Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum, Royal Pump Rooms, 21 April-3 June 2001 (from collection on temporary loan, 2001-2002) Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Gallery 10 and the Industrial Gallery, June 2002-June 2004 (from collection on temporary loan, June 2002-June 2004) ‘Masterpieces of Studio Pottery’, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, 29 January-15 May 2005 (from collection on temporary loan, 26 August 2004-31 July 2007) ‘Lucie Rie & Hans Coper Art Alive is Always Modern’, MIMA, Middlesbrough, 28 November 2008-15 February 2009 (from collection on temporary loan, 1 February 2008-21 August 2012) Literature John Houston ed., Lucie Rie a survey of her life and work, exh. cat., Crafts Council and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1981, p. 72, item 90 for a similar example Tony Birks, Lucie Rie Yeovil, 2009, p. 106 for a similar example Lucie Rie – A Retrospective, exh. cat., The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2010, p. 97, item 53 for a similar example Artist Bio Lucie Rie Austrian • 1902 - 1995 Dame Lucie Rie studied under Michael Powolny at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna before immigrating to London in 1938. In London she started out making buttons for the fashion industry before producing austere, sparsely decorated tableware that caught the attention of modernist interior decorators. Eventually she hit her stride with the pitch-perfect footed bowls and flared vases for which she is best-known today. She worked in porcelain and stoneware, applying glaze directly to the unfired body and firing only once. She limited decoration to incised lines, subtle spirals and golden manganese lips, allowing the beauty of her thin-walled vessels to shine through. In contrast with the rustic pots of English ceramicist Bernard Leach who is considered an heir to the Arts and Crafts movement, collectors and scholars revere Rie for creating pottery that was in dialogue with the design and architecture of European Modernism. View More Works

Auction archive: Lot number 262
Auction:
Datum:
25 Apr 2013
Auction house:
Phillips
London
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