Lucie Rie - Moved by Beauty: Works by Lucie Rie from an Important Asian Collection New York Wednesday, December 11, 2024 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Bonhams, London, “International Contemporary Ceramics,” May 23, 2006, lot 148
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Literature

    Tony Birks, Lucie Rie, Yeovil, 1994, pp. 130, 152 for similar examples

  • 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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Pot with oval lip

circa 1974
Stoneware, pitted cream glaze.
6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm) high
Underside impressed with artist's seal.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $4,445

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Moved by Beauty: Works by Lucie Rie from an Important Asian Collection

New York Auction 11 December 2024