Property from a Louisiana Collection Lucie Rie Large bowl circa 1970 Stoneware, matte white glaze with golden manganese lip. 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm) diameter Impressed with artist's seal.
Provenance Gift from Dame Lucie Rie to her cousin Kurt Braun, on the occasion of his 50th wedding anniversary, 1970 Thence by descent to the present owner Literature Issey Miyake Meets Lucie Rie exh. cat., Sogetsu Gallery, Tokyo, 1989, pp. 27, 114 for similar examples Tony Birks, Lucie Rie Yeovil, 1994, p. 167 for a similar example Lucie Rie A Retrospective, exh. cat., The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2010, p. 231, fig. 178 for a similar example 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
Property from a Louisiana Collection Lucie Rie Large bowl circa 1970 Stoneware, matte white glaze with golden manganese lip. 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm) diameter Impressed with artist's seal.
Provenance Gift from Dame Lucie Rie to her cousin Kurt Braun, on the occasion of his 50th wedding anniversary, 1970 Thence by descent to the present owner Literature Issey Miyake Meets Lucie Rie exh. cat., Sogetsu Gallery, Tokyo, 1989, pp. 27, 114 for similar examples Tony Birks, Lucie Rie Yeovil, 1994, p. 167 for a similar example Lucie Rie A Retrospective, exh. cat., The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2010, p. 231, fig. 178 for a similar example 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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