Lucie Rie
1902 - 1995
Selected Honours and Awards
| 1992 | Awarded Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters by Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK |
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| 1991 | Awarded Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) |
| 1981 | Awarded Commander of the British Empire (CBE) |
| 1969 | Awarded Honorary Doctorate by the Royal College of Art, London, UK |
| 1968 | Awarded Order of the British Empire (OBE) |
| 1964 | Gold medalist at the Munich International Exhibition, Munich, Germany |
| 1937 | Silver medalist at the Paris International Exhibition, Paris, France |
| 1936 | Gold medalist at the Milan Triennale, Milan, Italy |
| 1935 | Gold medalist at the Brussels International Exhibition, Brussels, Belgium |
Retrospectives
| 2010-11 | Lucie Rie: A Retrospective, travelling exhibition at The National Art Centre Tokyo, Mashiko Museum of Art, Tochigi, Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, Paramita Museum, Mie, Hagi University Museum, Yamguchi, Japan |
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| 2002-03 | Serene Beauty: Retrospective for 100th Anniversary of Lucie Rie’s birth, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shiga, Japan |
| 1981 | Retrospective Exhibition at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, and later at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK |
| 1967 | Retrospective at the Arts Council Gallery, London, which was later shown in Nottingham and Bristol, UK |
Public Collections
Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Japan
Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art, Japan
Blackwell House, Cumbria, UK
British Council Collection, UK
The British Museum, London, UK
City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Crafts Council, UK
Crafts Study Centre, University for the Creative Arts, UK
Craigievar Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, Japan
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Paisley Museum and Art Galleries, Scotland, UK
Paramita Museum, Japan
Plymouth City and Art Gallery, UK
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK
Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Solo Exhibitions
| 2018 | Lucie Rie, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK |
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| 2010 | Solo exhibition, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 2008 | Lucie Rie, Musée National de Céramique, Sèvres, France |
| 2005 | Solo exhibition, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 2002 | Lucie Rie Centenary Exhibition, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 1999 | Exhibition, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria Solo exhibition, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 1997 | Solo exhibition, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 1995 | Lucie Rie: A Tribute from her Friends, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 1992 | Lucie Rie, Crafts Council exhibition, London, UK Lucie Rie: 90th Birthday Exhibition, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 1990 | Solo exhibition, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 1989 | Issey Miyake meets Lucie Rie, Sogetsu Gallery, and later at the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, Japan Lucie Rie: White Pots, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 1988 | Solo exhibition, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 1983 | Solo exhibition, Peter Dingley Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK Solo exhibition, Graham Gallery, New York, USA |
| 1979-80 | Solo exhibition, Hetjens Museum, Dusseldorf, Germany |
| 1960 | Solo exhibition, Berkeley Galleries, London, UK |
| 1954 | Solo exhibition, Bonniers Gallery, New York, USA |
| 1949 | Solo exhibition, Berkeley Galleries, London, UK |
Group Exhibitions
| 2021 | Lucie Rie and Gertrud Vasegaard, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Small Works, Great Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK |
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| 2020 | Small Works, Great Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK |
| 2019 | 20th Century British Ceramics, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK In the Form of a Bowl, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Small Works, Great Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK |
| 2018 | British Ceramics, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Collect Masters, Erskine, Hall & Coe, Collect Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK |
| 2017 | Twelve Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK |
| 2016 | International Ceramics, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Nine Potters - Anniversary Exhibition, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK |
| 2015 | Summer Exhibition, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK International Ceramics, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK 20th Century Ceramics, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK London Art Fair, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK |
| 2014 | William Willkins, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Classic & Contemporary Ceramics, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Group Exhibition, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK |
| 2013 | Paintings & Ceramics, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Hans Coper, Ruth Duckworth & Lucie Rie, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Classic & Contemporary Ceramics, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK |
| 2012 | Galerie Besson, Retrospective of a Lifelong Passion, Officine Saffi Gallery, Milan, Italy SOFA Chicago, Erskine, Hall & Coe, Chicago, USA SOFA New York, Erskine, Hall & Coe, New York, USA |
| 2009 | U-Tsu-Wa, Lucie Rie, Jennifer Lee, Ernst Gamperl, 21_21 Design Sight, The Miyake Issey Foundation, Tokyo, Japan Lucie Rie & Hans Coper: Art Alive is Always Modern, MIMA, Middlesbrough, UK Classic & Contemporary Ceramics, Galerie Besson, London, UK Masterpieces in Studio Pottery from The British Council Collection, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales, UK |
| 2008 | Hans Coper and Lucie Rie, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 2006 | Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 2002 | Ceramic Modernism - Hans Coper, Lucie Rie & their Legacy, Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada |
| 1997 | Lucie Rie & Hans Coper: Potters in Parallel, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK |
| 1994 | Hans Coper & Lucie Rie, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Lucie Rie & Hans Coper, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 1993 | Lucie Rie & Hans Coper, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 1990-91 | Lucie Rie, Hans Coper and their Pupils, Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, later moves to Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK |
| 1988 | Crafts Classics since the 1940s, Craft Council Gallery, London, UK |
| 1987 | British Potters, coinciding with issue of Post Office commemorative stamps, Fischer Fine Art, London, UK |
| 1986 | Nine Potters, Fischer Fine Art, London, UK |
| 1984 | Lucie Rie & Hans Coper, Fisher Fine Art, London, UK |
| 1978 | Kösters Kunstkammer, Mönchengladbach, Germany |
| 1974 | Hetjens Museum, Dusseldorf, Germany |
| 1973 | The Craftsman’s Art, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK |
| 1972 | Lucie Rie & Hans Coper - Keramik, at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany |
| 1970 | Travelling exhibition in Copenhagen, Denmark; Osaka and Kyoto, Japan Marjorie Parr Gallery, London, UK |
| 1968 | Qantas Gallery, London, UK |
| 1967 | Lucie Rie & Hans Coper, travelling exhibition at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Gemeente Museum, Arnhem, The Netherlands |
| 1965 | Molton Gallery, London, UK |
| 1964 | International Ceramics Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan Midland Group Exhibition, Nottingham, UK |
| 1960 | English Potters, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1958-59 | British Artist Craftsmen, Smithsonian Institution exhibition, tours across America |
| 1957 | Shared exhibition with Hans Coper, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA |
| 1956 | Shared exhibition with Hans Coper, Berkeley Galleries, London, UK |
| 1955 | Shared exhibition with Hans Coper, Röhsska Konstslöjdmuseet, Gothenburg, Sweden Participates in Midland Group Exhibition, Nottingham, UK |
| 1954 | Exhibits at Milan Triennale, Milan, Italy Participates in Midland Group Exhibition, Nottingham, UK |
| 1953 | English Ceramics, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Shared exhibition with Hans Coper, Berkeley Galleries, London, UK |
| 1952 | Pottery and Textiles Exhibition, Darlington and Edinburgh, UK |
| 1951 | Exhibits at Milan Triennale, Milan, Italy Exhibits in British Pavilion, Festival of Britain, UK Shared exhibition with Hans Coper, Berkeley Galleries, London, UK |
| 1950 | Shared exhibition with Hans Coper, Berkeley Galleries, London, UK |