AXEL SALTO (1889-1961) Lot n° 18

A rare stoneware, blue glazed 'three deer and cornfield'-vase. Copenhagen, 1930. Production Kobenhavn Stentojsbraenderi. Stamp, signature and date underneath. Provenance: Private collection, Brussels Axel Salto is a multi-talented artist who became a master ceramist. Yet, his artistic career started as a painter when he graduated in 1911 from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. But his creativity also expressed itself in book illustrations, graphic designs, jewellery, textiles, works on paper and not least ceramics with which he made an artistic breakthrough in 1925 at the International Exposition in Paris. As an editor of the critical art journal 'Klingen' and as a member of the artists’ group ‘The 4’, Salto was a pivotal figure in early Danish Modernism. During the 1950s he was one of an exclusive group of furniture designers and craftsmen who promoted Danish design with great success under the banner of ‘Danish Modern’. Based on his observation of nature’s forms, structures and their inherent dynamisms, Salto designed the ‘fluting’, ‘budding’ and ‘sprouting’ styles which are characteristic of his ceramic work. Today Salto’s ceramics have attained an almost cult-like status and he is admired internationally for his original form of expression. Source: https://claymuseum.dk/en/exhibition/playing-with-fire-edmund-de-waal-and-axel-salto/ Resale rights applicable. 27 x 18 cm