Peter Schlesinger Grove

Peter Schlesinger
b. 1948
Grove

Executed in 2010.
ceramic
24 ¾ by 9 ¾ by 9 ¾ in. (62.9 by 24.8 by 24.8 cm.)

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Catalogue Note:
Peter Schlesinger was born and raised in Los Angeles in 1948. After studying painting at the University of California, Los Angeles, he went to London’s Slade School of Art in the late 1960s and early 1970s and began making sculpture in New York in the mid 1980s. A former artist's model, perhaps most well known for being the subject in numerous notable canvases by the British painter David Hockney.

Schlesinger’s ceramic works include figurative sculptures that evoke mythology and fables as well as vessels that reference ancient forms and enigmatic biomorphic shapes with inventive glazes and textures.

Schlesinger has exhibited sculptures and paintings at the Hayward Gallery, London, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, and MoMA PS1, New York. His work is in the collections of the Parrish Art Museum, The Farnsworth Museum, and Manchester Gallery of Art, England. He currently resides in New York City.

Provenance:
Kindly donated by David Lewis