Literature

Issey Miyake et.al., Issey Miyake Meets Lucie Rie, Sogetsu Gallery, Tokyo, 1989, with tour to Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, exh. cat., illustrated p.52 (a closely comparable work);
Cyril Frankel et.al., Lucie Rie, Hans Coper and their Pupils, exh. cat., Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, 1990, illustrated p.38 (a closely comparable work);
Margot Coatts (ed), Lucie Rie & Hans Coper – Potters in Parallel, exh. cat. Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1997, illustrated p.p.94 (a closely related work);
John Windsor, 'A love, a lifetime, a Lucie', The Independent, 15th April 1997.



'And, not for sale until after Frankel's death, Rie's "God pot". It is a marvel, a white, globular creation with a round base and a tall neck pinched to an oval lip. "You must have felt like God when you made that," he told her. "As a matter of fact," she replied, "I did."
(John Windsor, 'A love, a lifetime, a Lucie', including an interview with Cyril Frankel, The Independent, 15th April 1997)

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.