Lucie Rie: A Survey of Her Life and Work

4to. 92 pages of text. Bound in grey cloth with dust wrapper. Edited by Jon Houston and with photographs by David Cripps. With contributions by Victor Margrie, Dorris U. Kuyken-Schneider, David Queensbury, and Janet Leach. INSCRIBED BY LUCIE RIE To David with love from Lucie Rie The price-clipped dustjacket has minor shelfwear and is sunned on the spine. The text is clean and unmarked. Includes some ephemera photocopy of newspaper article by Paula Davies Pottery creating a stir in the art world Daily Telegraph 1985; A large Folded Flyer listing 255 items of her work exhibited the V & A regarding an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum with the invitation to the private view of the opening of the exhibition and; private View card for the exhibition The Life and work of Dame Lucie Rie 1902-1995 at the Victoria and Albert Museum 19th June 1995; Daily Telegraph newspaper cutting Lucie Rie s austere art of elegance' by Elizabeth Williamson 1982; The Times Birthday Today Lucie Rie, 16.3.82 . Provenance. David Coachworth . David Coachworth joined the Victoria and Albert Department of Circulation in the late 1950 s as a museum assistant. In the early 1970 s he was involved in numerous exhibitions including International Ceramics which was exhibited in 1972. It seems likely that his friendship with Lucie Rie developed during their collaboration with the exhibition.Size 25 x 19cm (9.75 x 7.75 inches). …