Lucie Rie Squared flower vase circa 1966 Stoneware, white pitted and flowing glaze, manganese elements in the body creating a brown speckle. 24.8 cm (9 3/4 in) high, 15 cm (5 7/8 in) diameter Impressed with artist’s seal.
Provenance Phillips Auctioneers, London, 'Contemporary Ceramics', 25 September 2001, lot 114 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) ‘Lucie Rie’, Tate St Ives, 16 May-27 September 2009 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. 78, fig. 131 for a similar example Emmanuel Cooper, Lucie Rie exh. cat.,Tate St Ives, 2009, illustrated n.p. 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
Lucie Rie Squared flower vase circa 1966 Stoneware, white pitted and flowing glaze, manganese elements in the body creating a brown speckle. 24.8 cm (9 3/4 in) high, 15 cm (5 7/8 in) diameter Impressed with artist’s seal.
Provenance Phillips Auctioneers, London, 'Contemporary Ceramics', 25 September 2001, lot 114 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) ‘Lucie Rie’, Tate St Ives, 16 May-27 September 2009 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. 78, fig. 131 for a similar example Emmanuel Cooper, Lucie Rie exh. cat.,Tate St Ives, 2009, illustrated n.p. 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
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