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Cowan's +
Clark + Del Vecchio
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Cowan's + Clark + Del Vecchio = Ceramics Auction.
Announcing the launch of the first regular U.S.A. auction of 20th century and contemporary ceramics.
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CINCINNATI, Friday February 19, 2010. Wes Cowan, president and principal auctioneer of Cowan’s Auctions, and Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio, both of Clark + Del Vecchio Gallery in Santa Fe, N.M., have announced a partnership to bring modern and contemporary ceramics to the international art market through focused, selective and scholarly semiannual auctions. LiveAuctioneers.com provides Internet live bidding for all Cowan's sales. The coming event was launched last night at a party in Cincinnati that brought together a lively crowd of collectors, museum directors and curators and ceramists.
The planned 20th-century and Contemporary Ceramics auctions will blend Cowan’s stellar reputation as an auction house with Clark and Del Vecchio’s impeccable credentials as writers, critics, historians, curators and consultants to leading museums, as well as 30 year's experience as top ceramics dealers. The first of the new auctions, scheduled together with a daylong seminar on the ceramics marketplace, will take place sometime in the fall. A date will be announced soon. The auctions will be focused around studio pottery and ceramic sculpture from 1918 to the present, but will not include art pottery. Consignments for the inaugural auction will be accepted through August, with generous terms offered.
“The decision to have this happen outside New York was guided by two factors," Clark said. "We did not want to live in the shadows of the New York modern and contemporary art sales and we needed a venue with historical connections to ceramic art. In 1876 Cincinnati became the birthplace of modern ceramic art in America. What could be more apropos?”
"We're very excited about this unique opportunity,” said Cowan. “We’ve all been thinking about an auction venue focusing exclusively on 20th-century studio and other ceramics, which has never been done before. It's the perfect storm. Cowan's has the reputation for honesty and integrity that Garth and Mark have been looking for in an auction house, and from my standpoint, I've rounded up the foremost scholars on the subject."
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