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Zeus

  • Artist Peter Voulkos
  • Year 1981
  • Type Sculpture
  • Medium Anagama - fired stoneware
  • Dimensions 104 x 48 x 43 cm (41 x 19 x 17 in.)
  • Info
    Incised signature and date near base ‘Voulkos 81’. This work is registered in the Voulkos and Co. catalog as number CR830_1W.
  • Provenance
    Collection of Patricia and Jerome Shaw.
    Private Collection.
    Post War & Contemporary Ceramics - Rago (2025-02-19, Lot: 125).
  • Literature

    1. Painting and Sculpture Today 1982 (1982) Exhibition catalog, p. 24.

    2. Slivka, R. and Sujimoto, K. The Art of Peter Voulkos. Pages 17, 29, and 32 illustrate similar examples.

    Exhibitions:
    1. Exhibit A, Chicago, Illinois, Peter Voulkos: Recent Works,5 December 1981-15 January 1982. Checklist #17.
    2. Indianapolis Museum of Art. Indianapolis, Indiana. Painting and Sculpture Today 1982, 6 July-15 August 1982. Catalogue, ill. p. 24.
    3. Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Peter Voulkos: Ceramics from the Collection of Jerome and Patricia Shaw, 13 November-12 January 1992.
    4. The Oakland Museum of California, The Art of Peter Voulkos, 22 July-12 November 1995. Traveled to the Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, 8 December 1995-25 February 1996; American Craft Museum, New York, 21 March-9 June 1996. Catalogue/book, checklist.