Tall bowl

Details

Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye (B.1938)
Tall bowl
incised and dated 'alev 2000' (on the base)
stoneware, dark blue glaze with a masked design
13 ½ high x 8 ½in. diameter (34.5 x 21cm.)
Executed 2000

Provenance

Barry Friedman Collection, New York; his sale, Christie's, New York, 26 March 2014, lot 180.
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

Garth Clark, Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye, 1999, p. 134 (similar example illustrated).

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. These lots have been imported from outside the EU for sale using a Temporary Import regime. Import VAT is payable (at 5%) on the Hammer price. VAT is also payable (at 20%) on the buyer’s Premium on a VAT inclusive basis. When a buyer of such a lot has registered an EU address but wishes to export the lot or complete the import into another EU country, he must advise Christie's immediately after the auction.

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Lot Essay

'There is no severed slashing of surfaces, expressionistic painting nor sculptural addition. No bowl could be more pared down or basic. Everything is achieved through subtlety: a slight narrowing at the neck, the knife edge sharpness of the rim, a small swelling at the neck. These are all slight, but meaningful and considered, modulations that cumulatively set a Ebüzziya Siesbye bowl apart from the rest and joins it to a long succession of inspired bowls of the past' (Garth Clark, Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye, 1999, p. 16).

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