Lucie Rie - Design New York Wednesday, June 3, 2009 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Lucie Rie / Hans Coper – Masterworks, Phillips London, June 20, 2000, Lot 118
     

  • Exhibited

    “Lucie Rie” Retrospective, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1981

  • Literature

    Lucie Rie, exh. cat.,  Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1981, catalogue no. 25 and illustrated p. 49; Tony Birks, Lucie Rie, London, 1994, illustrated pp. 195 and 203

  • Catalogue Essay

    This pot was the first example of this late design. Lucie Rie herself was delighted to have created a "new form" and made only a few others.  Lucie Rie retained this ‘prototype’ pot for the remainder of her working life.

  • Artist Biography

    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.

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Byzantine-style vase

ca. 1976
Porcelain, golden manganese glaze with sgraffito inside and out.
9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.) high
Impressed with artist’s seal.

Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for $13,750

Design

3 June 2009, 11am
New York