Contemporary Works of Art

CONTEMPORARY WORKS OF ART

CONTEMPORARY WORKS OF ART

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C O N T E M P O R A RY W O R K S O F A RT

Ever y work of ar t was a contemporar y work of ar t

New technology also has the capability of producing

when it was created. In this brochure I am proud to

astonishing works of ar t. Here we see Michael Eden

present a range of objects which continue the story of

using three-dimensional printing and Kazuhiro Toyama

mankind’s creativity.

spraying molten metals to create layers of tex ture on his dynamic sculptures. Toyama is a former pupil of

Fundamentally traditional materials such as porcelain, glass,

leading silver artist Hiroshi Suzuki, who has created a new

silver and hardstones dominate our selection, of which the

hammer-raised Aqua Poesy vase chased with dynamic

beautiful agate bowl on the cover of this brochure is a

flowing lines.

prime example. The artist, Toshiya Oguma, has taken over ten years to polish this finely detailed piece, developed in

Our other principal ar tists, Kate Malone, Junko Mori,

his personal and contemporary style.

Felicity Aylieff and Hitomi Hosono have also amazed us with new works in their signature styles.

17th and 18 th century porcelain from China has also been

re-invented in a non-traditional way. Bouke de Vries has

This selection of works is a mere snapshot of our

created a towering sculpture, over one metre high,

artists’ achievements over the last year or so. There are

consisting of three stacked vases. Each tiered glass section

many more pieces on our website and others beginning

references the original form of the damaged historical

to emerge, which we look for ward to sharing in the

porcelain contained within, symbolising its ‘memory’.

coming months.

Adrian Sassoon February 2022

HIROSHI SUZUKI AQUA POESY VII VASE, 2021

Hammer-raised and chased Fine silver 999 Made by the ar tist in Japan Height 38 cm (15") £ 52,000

JOON YONG KIM THE WESTERN SKY, 2019

Blown and cold-worked glass Made by the ar tist in South Korea Diameter 48 cm (18 7/8") £ 13,500

HITOMI HOSONO A LARGE SAKURA AND KEYAKI BOWL, 2020

Moulded, carved and hand-built porcelain with an interior of dancing sprigs Made by the ar tist in UK Diameter 33.5 cm (13 3/4") £ 13,200

KATE MALONE A PAIR OF LIDDED ACORN MISS ALICE JAR, 2021 WOVEN LIDDED FRUIT BASKETS, stoneware 2021 Crystalline-glazed

Made by the ar tiststoneware in UK Crystalline-glazed Height cm ar (9") Made by23the tist in UK Height 40 cm (15 3/4") £ 12,000

LIDDED BLACKBERRY JAR, 2021

Crystalline-glazed stoneware Made by the ar tist in UK Height 23 cm (9") £ 12,000

ELIZABETH FRITSCH DOUBLING THE TEMPO, circa 2000

Hand-built stoneware with coloured slips Made by the ar tist in UK Height 44 cm (17 3/8") £ 35,500

TOSHIYA OGUMA EXISTENCE AND THE STARS, 2021

Hand-carved Brazilian agate Made by the ar tist in Japan Diameter 18.2 cm (7 1/8") £ 46,000

TAKAHIRO KONDO RED MIST, GREEN SILVER 2020MIST BOWL, 2021

Porcelain with silver mist over-glaze Made by the ar tist in Japan Height 25 cm Diameter 59 cm (9 7(23 /8")1/4") £ 15,400

FELICITY AYLIEFF A PAIR OF DANCING INSECTS VASES, 2020

Thrown and glazed porcelain with onglaze enamel transfers Made by the ar tist in Jingdezhen, China Height 55 cm (21 5/8") £ 14,000

BOUKE DE VRIES DOUBLE GOURD MEMORY VESSEL, 2021

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Contemporary glass following the original form of its contents; the collected remains of 17th and 18th century Chinese porcelain vases Made by the ar tist in UK Height 105 cm (41 3/8") £ 28,000

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COLIN REID COLOUR SATURATION; BATTUTO VESSEL IN RED AND BLACK, 2020

Kiln-cast, polished and battuto cut optical glass glass.

Made by the ar tist in UK Diameter 45 cm (17 3/4") £ 9,000

JUNKO MORI PROPAGATION PROJECT; SUN FLOWER, 2019 TANKA BLOSSOM RING, 2021 Forged mild steel, wax-coated

Made the steel, ar tistwax-coated in UK Forgedbymild Height (26 Made by68cm the ar tist3/4in") UK Height 47 cm (18 1/2") £ 31,000

TOBIAS MØHL NEST BOWLS, 2021

Blown glass with canework Made by the ar tist in Denmark Height 15 cm to 18 18cm cm (5 7/8" to 7 1/8") (5 7/8" to 7 1/8") £ 2,775 each

MICHAEL EDEN GREEN ROMANESCO VASE I, 2017

PURPLE ROMANESCO VASE I, 2017

Made by Additive Layer Manufacturing from a high quality nylon material with a asoft softmineral mineralcoating coating No. 1 in an edition of 2 Made by the ar tist in UK Height 40cm (15 3/4") ”)

Made by Additive Layer Manufacturing from a high-quality nylon material with a asoft softmineral mineralcoating coating No. 1 in an edition of 2 Made by the ar tist in UK Height 30cm (11 3/4") ”)

£ 11,200

£ 9,000

ANDREW WICKS A GARNITURE STILL LIFE OF EIGHT OF THIRTEEN VASES, 2021 TWISTED Thrown andVASES, carved2020 porcelain

Made by and the carved ar tist inporcelain UK Thrown Height (13 Made by35cm the ar tist3/4in") UK Height 33.5 cm (13 1/4") £ 11,000

ANGELA JARMAN PERIDOT OLIVE PULMONARIA, PULMONARIA, 2021 2021

Lost-wax cast green deep green lead crystal lead crystal with with glass inser t Made by the ar tist in UK 1/ 5") Height 21cm 24.5 cm(8(9 4 / 8") £ 7,200

PIPPIN DRYSDALE SPLENDOUR AT BLACK ROCK III, 2019

SPLENDOUR AT BLACK ROCK VI, 2019

KIMBERLEY SERIES; DESERT SPRING, 2019

Porcelain vase Made by the ar tist in Western Australia Height 31 cm (12 1/4") ”)

Porcelain vase Made by the ar tist in Western Australia Height 33 cm (13") (13”)

Porcelain vase Made by the ar tist in Western Australia Height 33 cm (13") (13”)

£ 12,200

£ 12,500

£ 12,750

KAZUHIRO TOYAMA BIOPHILIA; ANIMA I, 2021

BIOPHILIA; ANIMA II, 2021

Stainless steel, copper and aluminium Made by the ar tist in Japan Height 55 cm (21 5/8")

Stainless steel, copper, aluminium and gold leaf Made by the ar tist in Japan Height 39 cm (15 3/8")

£ 12,500

£ 10,500

All these works of art are for sale, subject to prior sale.

Please contact the gallery for further details including dimensions, price and shipping costs.

More images and descriptions may be found on our website www.adriansassoon.com in the relevant Contemporary sections.

A selected list of Museums and Institutions who have purchased Contemporary Works of Art from Adrian Sassoon: UNIT ED K INGDOM

Abbott Hall, Kendal, Cumbria Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, Aberdeen Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham Blackwell, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol Chatsworth House, Bakewell, Derbyshire Crafts Council, London Gallery Oldham, Oldham Hove Museum & Art Gallery, Hove Lotherton Hall, Leeds, Yorkshire Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh National Museum Wales, Cardiff National Museums Liverpool, Liverpool National Museums Northern Ireland, Holywood New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norfolk

NORTH AMERICA

Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA Carnegie Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, USA Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii, USA Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, USA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, USA Mint Museum Uptown, North Carolina, USA Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Massachusetts, USA Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, USA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA The Newark Museum, New Jersey, USA Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Montreal, Canada The Lake St. Louis Historical Society, Quebec, Canada

Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham Oriental Museum, Durham University, Durham Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Perth Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, Norfolk Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust, Yorkshire Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear Temple Newsam, Leeds Museums & Galleries, Leeds The British Museum, London The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge The Goldsmiths’ Company, London The Harley Foundation, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire

EU R O P E A N D AU S T R A L I A

Farmleigh House and Estate, Dublin, Eire Musée des Arts décoratifs, de la Faïnce et de la Mode, Marseille, France Musée Mandet, Riom, France Musée National de Céramique, Sèvres, France Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet, Paris, France Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, Köln, Germany Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany

The McManus, Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum, Dundee

The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway

The Rothschild Foundation, Waddesdon

Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden

The Salters’ Company, London

Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland

The Wilson Arts Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

Touchstones Rochdale Museum and Art Gallery, Lancashire

Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, Australia

Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland Victoria and Albert Museum, London York Art Gallery, Yorkshire

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