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Paul Soldner Signed Large Modern Pottery Raku Slab Charger Wall Relief Sculpture
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An amazing and unique piece by renowned American pottery and ceramic master Paul Soldner who in the 1950s was Peter Voulkos' first student and who later became famed for developing the technique now known as "American Raku" - a practice of using low temperature salt firing to make his vessels.
This sculpture is in fine vintage condition and is signed on the back and marked/stamped on front with Soldner's personalized stamp at lower front.
Soldner's work can be found in collections and museums worldwide including:
Victoria and Albert Museum United Kingdom
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Arts and Design New York
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California (which opened with a featured exhibition of his work in 2004 titled "Inferno")
Australian National Gallery, Sydney, Australia
National Museum of Modern Art, Koyoto, Japan
Oakland Museum of Art
Scripps College, Claremont
Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art, Washington DC.
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
Dimensions: 21.5" high, 17" wide, 6" deep.
- Creator:Paul Soldner (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 21.5 in (54.61 cm)Width: 17 in (43.18 cm)Depth: 6 in (15.24 cm)
- Style:Modern (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:20th Century
- Condition:In very good vintage condition with no discernable flaws, cracks, chips, etc.. and light, if any, wear consistent with age and use (please see photos), This is a one of a kind, stunning work of art. Beautiful.
- Seller Location:Studio City, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2254313216571
Paul Soldner
After studying under Peter Voulkos at the Los Angeles County Art Institute, Denver native Paul Soldner (1921–2011) became a pottery professor there in the 1960s, when the revolutionary California Clay Movement took root.
Soldner pioneered American-style raku firing methods, experimental updates of the centuries-old Japanese process, which involve pulling red-hot sculptures out of the kiln to be bathed in smoke or dipped in cold water, resulting in beautifully frazzled glazes.
“These new firing and post-firing reduction methods often led to spontaneous, unpredictable and quite wonderful results,” says Greg Nielson, of Dwell Floor Five, in Studio City, California.
Soldner’s raku vases, for instance, with their charred surfaces, seem to smile humbly through the scars of their past adversity.
Alongside the likes of Toshiko Takaezu, Soldner innovated chunky, funky ceramics in the mid-century and beyond. He is one Voulkos student at whom enthusiasts should take a serious look, advises dealer Jayson Lawfer.
The owner of The Nevica Project, a gallery with venues in Chicago and Kansas City, Lawfer explains that Soldner “was a master of raku and was credited with bringing the historic Asian technique to the U.S.” He adds that “Soldner used simple techniques of throwing pottery on the wheel, but to make his sculptural forms more interesting, he also pressed burlap into the clay and stepped on it to give it different textures."
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