Alison Britton - The Art of Fire: Selections from the Dr John P. Driscoll Collection London Wednesday, November 10, 2021 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Purchased from the Crafts Council Shop, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, June 1995
    Bonhams, New Bond Street, 'International Contemporary Ceramics', 20 March 2007, lot 281

  • Exhibited

    'Form and Fiction: Alison Britton New Work', Galerie Marianne Heller, Heidelberg, 1995

  • Artist Biography

    Alison Britton

    British • 1948

    A leading figure in English ceramics, Alison Britton was part of a group of influential ceramists who emerged from the Royal College of Art in the 1970s, including Elizabeth Fritsch and Jacqueline Poncelet, whose work sought to re-establish the vessel as an abstract form. Rather than throw on a wheel, Britton hand-builds her pieces by assembling slabs in an asymmetrical, often architectural structure and paints them in energetic gestural patterns, combining sculpture with painting. Internationally recognized as a curator, writer and recipient of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, her ceramic artworks are held in the permanent collections of numerous institutions including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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140

'Blue Jug'

1994
Earthenware, broad brushed and trailed glazes.
38.7 x 27.5 x 22.7 cm (15 1/4 x 10 7/8 x 8 7/8 in.)
Incised Alison Britton 94.

Estimate
£3,000 - 4,000 ‡♠

Sold for £10,080

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The Art of Fire: Selections from the Dr John P. Driscoll Collection

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