Ruscha Keramik

Brutalist Moonvase Ruscha Art Vase, Fat Lava, Mid-Century Modern c. 1960

c. 1960

This naturalistic ceramic vase by Dümler & Breiden features a scalloped mouth that evokes both clams and waves, along with undulating, sand-colored glaze elements with hints of ocean...

This large ceramic vase from the Carstens Luxus line features a rugged volcanic lava finish in an earthy shade of garnet. Stamped in the base, and numbered, with original Carstens Lu...

A minimalist ceramic cone vase by Ü-Keramik (Uebelacker) with rugged vertical striations against a pink and white mottled glaze. Numbered in the base. Form 455/25. Ü Keramik, or Üeb...

Original 1961 poster for Roger Vadim's Please, Not Now! starring Brigitte Bardot. A masterful statement of modernist film poster design, this oversized drive-in poster was acquired d...

Lithographic propaganda poster “Acquire the people’s gas mask”, c. 1942. “Protection against possible attacks with chemical warfare agents played an important role in air defense f...

Even in its earlier years, the movie industry was based around spectacle. Exploitation posters, especially those depicting drug culture, were often design...

Robert Fournier (1915-2008), stoneware, tall flattened, bottle, circa 1960-1965 - This bottle is from the same series as No.2008.658.18 in the Metrop...

Alan Wallwork (1931-2019): Organic landscape sculptural vessel, 1960-1965 -Exhibiting the articulated, inventive, organic qualities & tactility of Wallwork’s early oeuvre for which he is best known - This sculptural landscape vessel has been handmade by coiling, slabbing and shaping the clay. The totemic form and pitted and pierced surfaces draw on the abstract landscape and tactility of elements in nature. matte glazes and oxides have been skillfully used to enhance the rich textures of the surfaces and the organic aesthetic. - Wallwork is one of the great individualists in British pottery, developing an archetypal language that echoed some of the wider artistic obsessions of that period, what the art critic Herbert Read called the “postwar ferment” of sculptural activity. - This piece was made during 1960-1965, the time that Wallwork was sharing a studio in Greenwich with Bernard Rooke and comes from a private collection along with a waterscape vase by Rooke and a bottle by Robert Fournier...

Rare and wonderful mid-century modern ceramic wall hanging by Marianna von Allesch. Incised design on ceramic panel. Signed lower right corner. Me...

(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan) Glazed and incised ceramic, 8 ½ inches diamet...

PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Trois poissons sur fond gris (A.R. 396) stamped, marked and numbered 'Edition Picasso / Madoura Plein Feu / N 106 / Edition Picasso / 80/175' (underneath) t...

PABLO PICASSO Spanish, 1881-1973 CHOPE VISAGE (A.R. 432) stamped and marked 'Edition Picasso / Madoura Plein Feu / Edition Picasso / 268/300 / Madoura' (...