Hans Coper Follow 'Sack' form with disc circa 1972 Stoneware, layered white porcelain slips and engobes over a body with textured and incised linear designs, the interior and disc with manganese glaze. 24 cm (9 1/2 in.) high, 16.1 cm (6 3/8 in.) diameter Impressed with artist's seal.
Provenance Galerie Besson, London, 1993 Acquired from the above by the present owner Exhibited 'Lucie Rie and Hans Coper', Galerie Besson, London, June-July 1993 Literature Lucie Rie Hans Coper and their pupils: A selection of contemporary ceramics illustrating their influence , exh. cat., Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 1990, p. 19 Lucie Rie/Hans Coper – Masterworks by Two British Potters , exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994, no. 7 Tony Birks, Hans Coper , Yeovil, 2013, p. 70, 147, 167, 215 Artist Bio Hans Coper German • 1920 - 1981 Follow Hans Coper learned his craft in the London studio of Lucie Rie , having emigrated from Germany as a young Jewish engineering student in 1939. He initially assisted Rie in the studio with the ceramic buttons she made for the fashion industry, as well as ceramic tableware, but soon Coper was producing his own work. By 1951 he had received considerable recognition exhibiting his pots in the "Festival of Britain." Coper favored compound shapes that, while simple in appearance, were in fact complex in construction. Similar to the making of Joseon Dynasty Moon Jars (Rie in fact displayed a Moon Jar in the studio), he would build his vessels by bringing several thrown forms together, for example joining bowls rim to rim. Coper eschewed glazes and preferred the textured surfaces achieved through the application of white and black slips, evoking the abraded texture of excavated vessels. This interest in ancient objects was very much in step with other modernists of his time—Coper admired Constantin Brancusi and Alberto Giacometti and his textured markings have been compared to sculptors such as William Turnbull In the last phase of his career, Coper reduced the scale of his work creating small "Cycladic" pots that stood on pedestals or drums, recalling the clay figures of Bronze Age Greece. View More Works
Hans Coper Follow 'Sack' form with disc circa 1972 Stoneware, layered white porcelain slips and engobes over a body with textured and incised linear designs, the interior and disc with manganese glaze. 24 cm (9 1/2 in.) high, 16.1 cm (6 3/8 in.) diameter Impressed with artist's seal.
Provenance Galerie Besson, London, 1993 Acquired from the above by the present owner Exhibited 'Lucie Rie and Hans Coper', Galerie Besson, London, June-July 1993 Literature Lucie Rie Hans Coper and their pupils: A selection of contemporary ceramics illustrating their influence , exh. cat., Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 1990, p. 19 Lucie Rie/Hans Coper – Masterworks by Two British Potters , exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994, no. 7 Tony Birks, Hans Coper , Yeovil, 2013, p. 70, 147, 167, 215 Artist Bio Hans Coper German • 1920 - 1981 Follow Hans Coper learned his craft in the London studio of Lucie Rie , having emigrated from Germany as a young Jewish engineering student in 1939. He initially assisted Rie in the studio with the ceramic buttons she made for the fashion industry, as well as ceramic tableware, but soon Coper was producing his own work. By 1951 he had received considerable recognition exhibiting his pots in the "Festival of Britain." Coper favored compound shapes that, while simple in appearance, were in fact complex in construction. Similar to the making of Joseon Dynasty Moon Jars (Rie in fact displayed a Moon Jar in the studio), he would build his vessels by bringing several thrown forms together, for example joining bowls rim to rim. Coper eschewed glazes and preferred the textured surfaces achieved through the application of white and black slips, evoking the abraded texture of excavated vessels. This interest in ancient objects was very much in step with other modernists of his time—Coper admired Constantin Brancusi and Alberto Giacometti and his textured markings have been compared to sculptors such as William Turnbull In the last phase of his career, Coper reduced the scale of his work creating small "Cycladic" pots that stood on pedestals or drums, recalling the clay figures of Bronze Age Greece. View More Works
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