Cowan's is pleased to announce a partnership with Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio, internationally renowned dealers, authors, and scholars, to present semi-annual 20th-century and Contemporary Ceramic Art Auctions.
These will be the first regular auctions in the United States focused solely on modern and contemporary ceramics.
The auction will be curated and vetted by Clark and Del Vecchio.
Call for Consignments for Inaugural Ceramic Auction being held in November 2010:
The auction will take place at Navy Pier in Chicago on Nov. 6, 2010 in affiliation with SOFA Chicago, the Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art Exposition.
We are actively seeking American, British, European and Japanese ceramics by Ken Price, Peter Voulkos, Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, Sueharu Fukami, Ralph Bacerra, Ron Nagle, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Beth Stichter,Gertrud and Otto Natzler, Beatrice Wood and others.
Contact Janet Rogers at Cowan's for more information about consigning: 513.871.1670 janet@cowans.com
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Department News
8/16/2010
The partnership of Cowans + Clark + DelVecchio is pleased to announce their inaugural Modern and Contemporary Ceramics Auction will be held in conjunction with the 2010 Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair in Chicago. The auction ...
4/23/2010
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4/2/2010
Cowans + Clark + DelVecchio Inaugural Ceramic auction date is set for November 6th 2010, and will be held at the Navy Pier in Chicago. The auction will be affiliated with SOFA Chicago, the Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art Exposition. We are currently seeking quality consignments of ...
2/19/2010
Cowan's Auctions hosted a cocktail party on Thursday, February 18, 2010 to celebrate the announcement of our partnership with Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio. Cowans + Clark + DelVecchio will hold semi-annual auctions of Modern and Contemporary Ceramics, with the inaugural auction to be held ...
2/10/2010
Cowan's American Scene Auction
Cowan’s Auctions is seeking quality consignments of Arts and Crafts and Aesthetic Movement ceramics, art pottery, art glass, silver and furniture for the May 22nd American Scene auction.
For more information, contact our specialist at artsandcrafts@cowans.com
...2/2/2010
Wes Cowan, President and Principal Auctioneer of Cowan’s Auctions, Garth Clark, and Mark Del Vecchio, both of Clark + Del Vecchio Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, have announced a partnership to bring modern and contemporary ceramics to the international art market through focused, selective, ...
Featured Items
LAROCQUE, JEAN-PIERRE (BORN 1953, CANADA)
Auction: 2010, Cowans + Clark + DelVecchio Modern and Contemporary Ceramics, November 19
Untitled Figure 2002
Stoneware, 33.5" High x 12.25" Wide x 7"Deep
Est. $5,000 - $6,500
AUTIO, RUDY (1926-2007, USA)
Auction: 2010, Cowans + Clark + DelVecchio Modern and Contemporary Ceramics, November 19
Bitterroot Appaloosa 1984
Salt-glazed Porcelain, 16"High x 11.25"Wide x 13.5"Deep
Est. $15,000 - $18,000
HENDERSON, EWEN (1934-2000, BRITAIN)
Auction: 2010, Cowans + Clark + DelVecchio Modern and Contemporary Ceramics, November 19
Untitled Vessel 1970
Stoneware, 16.25"High x 12.5"Diameter
Est. $4,000 - $6,000
KEITH HARING (1958-1990, USA)
Auction: 2010, Cowans + Clark + DelVecchio Modern and Contemporary Ceramics, November 19
Untitled 1989
Terra Cotta, 9 1/4"High x 28 1/2"Diameter
Est. $20,000 - $35,000
Garth Clark
Garth Clark is the author of over 50 books and 250 essays on 20th century and contemporary ceramics. He has received numerous honors for his work including being made a Fellow the Royal College of Art, London and honorary doctorates from Staffordshire University in Britain and the Kansas City Art Institute among others. In 2005 he was the recipient of the College Art Association's Mather Award for distinguished art journalism. In 1981, together with Mark Del Vecchio he founded the Garth Clark Gallery in Los Angeles and then New York, and Kansas City. In 2007 the gallery was closed and a new entity Clark+DelVecchio, private dealers, was formed in Santa Fe, NM. 
Mark Del Vecchio
Mark Del Vecchio is the author of the highly-acclaimed Post Modern Ceramics. He has received the Visionaries award from the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, a lifetime achievement award from the Friends of Contemporary Ceramics and an honorary doctorate from the Kansas City Art Institute. He has directed the Garth Clark Gallery since 1981 overseeing the presentation of more than six hundred exhibitions during the life of the gallery. Together with Dawn Bennett and Garth Clark he organized the massive Ceramic Millennium Conference in Amsterdam in 1999 that attracted 56 national delegations and 3,500 attendees. He is now director of Clark+DelVecchio in Santa Fe, NM.
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