Adam Partridge Auctioneers is delighted to be offering for sale over 400 lots carefully selected by Paul Rice from his large studio ceramics collection. Well known as the author of the seminal book British Studio Ceramics and as a London gallery owner and curator, Paul – a native New Yorker – originally trained as a scientist with the intention of becoming an environmentalist, but always had a love and fascination for art.
Moving to London in 1970 and establishing himself as a dealer specializing in European post-War abstract art, he was introduced to studio ceramics by the painter Patrick Heron, who had helped run the Leach Pottery during the war. Struck at once how important British ceramics were and how little was known about them, Paul began exhibiting ceramics when he moved house in 1979.
