CHARLES LAKOFSKY huge 70s MODERN studio POTTERY + FREE

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You are bidding on an incredible LARGE 70s modern abstract studio pottery vessel by internationally known OHIO MODERN MASTER : CHARLES LAKOFSKY ( 1922-1993) this one is even LARGER than the last we offered ....it measures just a tad under 18" TALL by 5 1/4" wide by 3 3/8" deep an intriguing organic "tortured" & altered slab built & thrown sculptural vase the slightly shorter 1 sold for 95 and buyer was pleased ...there is no reserve for this listing (and you get the freebie !) there is no damage, the only thing to mention is a bit of gum residue from the felt removed to show you the signature AS A FREE BONUS we are including ANOTHER vintage 60s or 70s LAKOFSKY piece .... the FREE one has rim boo boos (bottom) which we believe occured when the pot was pulled from the kiln ...... both pieces have a VERY SPECIAL PROVENANCE they were purchased directly from the estate of the artist and were part of the personal collection of his wife .... Helen the free small bowl measures 3 1/8" by 2 1/8" being fortunate to view and purchase a nice grouping of his early work ...we have noticed that not only did the artist have a wide range of glaze techniques and forms ; he also used quite a few different types of clay to create them buyer pays INSURED UPS SHIPPING the following information is ABOUT THE ARTIST you do not have to read it .. ..but if you are a collector .... you should have it for your records born : Cleveland Ohio Education: Diploma, The Cleveland Institute of Art, 1944 BFA magna cum laude , The STATE UNIVERSITY of NEW YORK COLLEGE of CERAMICS at ALFRED UNIVERSITY , 1946 MFA , The OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY , 1948 Professional experience : PROFESSOR of CERAMICS @ BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY since 1948 taught workshops or summer sessions at University of British Colombia, University of Colorado, Scripps College, Miami University, Indiana University ,Haystack School of Crafts, De Pauw University , University of Connecticut Exhibitions: over 400 area, state, national and international exhibitions since 1942 Awards in most major national, state & local shows, including Syracuse Ceramic Nationals, Witchita Decorative Arts-Ceramics Nationals, Ohio State Fair, Toledo area Art Exhibitions, Cleveland Museum of Art shows, Butler Institute of American Artswork included in at Brussels World Fair (Belgium) , Cannes ( France) one man shows @ the Art Institute of Chicago , Toledo Museum of Art, Zanesville Museum of Art , Ohio State University "If portraiture is a relatively new way to tell the story of how each of us inhabits place and time , there are also older ways to be here. All artifacts speak of the hand that made them , as well as use and need being intersected with beauty .Vessels made from the Earth offer a uniquely ancient and complete description of what it means to be human , aware of substance and spirit pressing against the skin of every living thing.No one understood the psycho-physics of function and loveliness better than Charles Lakofsky ....who in the course of his 71 years became one of Ohios most accomplished ceramicists widely respected as a younger member of the Cleveland School that included such names as Edris Eckhart and Victor Schrekengost ....Lakofsky was born in 1922, teaching at Bowling Green State University most of his life Lakofskys range of formal approaches is formidable , often inspired by the abstract expressionist art of his contemporaries during the late 1940s on through the succeeding decade but the strong gestural graphics of that international style owed much to Chinese and Japanese painting & the exquisite utilitarianism of a Lakofsky vessel brings such influences back home, to their roots in functionals design and a deeply considered bond between man and materials Lakofsky's vases can be breathtakingly , organically original, as unlikely and delightful as a new discovered species of plant per Vasefinder Museum { Lakofsky is one ... read more

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