Lucie Rie 1902-1995
Provenance
Purchased directly from Lucie Rie by Pat & Alan Firth, 1976Their Estate sale, Adam Partridge, Macclesfield, 16th October 2015, lot 126
Private Collection, London, acquired from the above
Exhibitions
Sheffield, Sheffield City Museum and Mappin Art Gallery, Lucie Rie, 1985.Literature
John Houston (ed.), Lucie Rie, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, Lucie Rie, 1981, exh. cat., p.90 (a closely comparable work);Tony Birks, Lucie Rie, Marston House, Yeovil, 1999, illustrated p.136 (a closely
comparable work);
Helen Walsh (intro.), Lucie Rie, Ceramics and Buttons, York Art Gallery, York, 2018-9, illustrated p.49 (a closely comparable work).
PAT AND ALAN FIRTH
A devoted couple, Pat (1934-2012) and Alan (1934-2015) Firth’s passion for British studio ceramics saw them build one of the most expansive collections of the twentieth century. Housed in their modest one-bedroom bungalow, neither worked in the arts (Alan was a senior probation officer and Pat a secretary), but over their 40-year collection span they befriended many of the leading ceramists of the day, including Rie and Coper. They would visit both at their studios, as well as maintaining regular correspondence (their papers are now housed in the Museum of York archive).
A closely comparable work is held in the collection of the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (accession number A 4906 a-n (KN&V).
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