Lucie Rie 1902-1995
diameter: 10cm
Further images
Provenance
Cyril FrankelPrivate Collection, New York, acquired from the above in 2001
Offer Waterman, London, acquired from the above, August 2023
Exhibitions
Norwich, Sainsbury Centre, Lucie Rie, Hans Coper & their Pupils, 1990, cat. no.56, illustrated, with tour to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge;
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lucie Rie/Hans Coper, Masterworks by Two British Potters, 1994, cat. no.R12.Literature
Tony Birks, Lucie Rie, Stenlake Publishing Ltd, Catrine, 1987, illustrated p.56;BBC Documentary, Omnibus, Lucie Rie, re-issued in 2002, shown in Cyril Frankel's home.
CYRIL FRANKEL
Cyril Frankel (1921-2017) played a pivotal role in Lucie Rie’s life following her arrival in London. He enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a director and filmmaker – and worked on pictures such as Permission to Kill (1975) with Ava Gardener and Dirk Bogarde and Devil on Horseback (1954). He began collecting works by Rie in the 1950s, and built up a close friendship with the artist, often loaning works from his personal collection for retrospective exhibitions. In 1982 Frankel produced a film on Rie for the BBC, presented by Sir David Attenborough. He wrote extensively on both Rie and Coper – including Modern Pots: Hans Coper, Lucie Rie & their Contemporaries, The Lisa Sainsbury Collection – and promoted their work, and that of their contemporaries through dedicated sales at Sotheby’s and later Bonhams and Phillips. In 1994 he co-curated an exhibition of Rie and Coper at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, which was to be their first major museum showing in North America.
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