248 Andrew Lord (1950) All signed and dated 1975, the bowl 1974. An assorted lot of six various unglazed terracotta objects, a bowl with an incised geometrical band, a vase, a cylindrical pot, the cover decorated with coloured bulges and three conical beakers decorated with a moulded blue table, a pink chair and a pink and yellow ironing board. D 12,5 cm (bowl), H from 9 until 17 cm (6) €800 - €1,200 249 Andrew Lord (1950) Signed and dated 1975. An unglazed terracotta vase of baluster shape with a trumpet shaped neck. H 23 cm €400 - €600
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‘Making objects has been a way for me to understand things I’ve found incomprehensible’. - Andrew Lord Authority on ceramics Tony Birks noted in 1976, Lord’s distinctive approach placed him at the tense boundary of fine art and craft. “It is ironic that his carefully and deliberately made pieces are in distinguished public and private collections around the world, by way of fine art galleries, but are regarded as crude, childish or clumsy by some of the regular outlets for hand-made objects“. In 1975 Lord moved to Rotterdam, where he received a three-year stipend from the Rotterdam Art Foundation. During this period the works offered in this auction were created. Whilst living in Rotterdam he travelled extensively in Europe and made frequent visits to Paris where he studies French painting and discovered the ceramics
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of Paul Gauguin. Of this time, Lord said, ‘I tried to understand how Picasso, Cezanne and Monet had looked at objects and how they had observed light and shade. In my studio in Rotterdam I painted the objects I was making as if through other artists eyes. When a particular kind of light fell across a plate or vase I recorded it with brushstrokes I’d seen in paintings.’
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