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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Lucio's: Food, Art & Friendship
• Sale Date:
  21 Mar 2021 ~ 2pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  144
• Lot Description:
  John Olsen
  (born 1928)
  Love in the Kitchen, 2000
  hand-painted ceramic platter
  47.0cm diameter (18 1/2in).
  titled, signed and dated to base: 'Love in the / Kitchen / John Olsen / 2000' ; incised by potter to base (indistinct)
• Provenance:
  The Lucio's Collection, Sydney
• Notes:
  With the pot, at each stage, for all your determination, you are in the hands of the elements. Earth, Water, mineral mixtures and fire - very much at their mercy' -John Olsen. Whilst living in Spain in the 1950s, John Olsen encountered the ceramic works of Pablo Picasso who had worked with the Madoura pottery in Vallauris. Enchanted, it wasn't until the late 1960s that Olsen met Robert Mair, a young New Zealand potter who had worked under Les Blakebrough. With Mair throwing and Olsen hand-decorating the resulting vessels, a life long passion was born. Of the satisfaction that came from the process, Olsen tells, 'I began to decorate casserole pots, plates and goblets. It was an extension of my work that suited my natural interest in calligraphy. Now I was writing in the round.' 1 1. The artist in John Olsen, Ken McGregor and Jenny Zimmer, John Olsen: Journeys into the 'You Beaut Country', Macmillan Art Publishing, Melbourne, 2007, p.66
• Estimate:
  A$5,000 - 8,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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