Lucie Rie - Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, Exceptional Ceramics: Selections from the Estate of Jane Coper and the former Collection of Cyril Frankel London Wednesday, November 1, 2023 | Phillips

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  • © Jane Coper / Estate of the Artist
    • Provenance

      Stanley North, acquired directly from the artist, circa 1940
      Lucie Rie, gifted from the above, circa 1940
      Jane Coper, circa 1995

    • Literature

      Margot Coatts, ed., Lucie Rie & Hans Coper: Potters in Parallel, exh. cat., Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1997, illustrated p. 19
      Tony Birks, Lucie Rie, Catrine, 2009, illustrated p. 219
      Emmanuel Cooper, Lucie Rie: Modernist Potter, New Haven and London, 2012, illustrated plate 88

    • 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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Property from the Estate of Jane Coper

313

Set of 7 graduated jugs

circa 1940
Earthenware, the interior with a white glaze.
Largest: 12 cm (4 3/4 in.) high
Smallest: 5.3 cm (2 1/8 in.) high

Each incised LR.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
£20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for £44,450

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Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, Exceptional Ceramics: Selections from the Estate of Jane Coper and the former Collection of Cyril Frankel

London Auction 1 November 2023