As part of the sale organized on Thursday, October 10, 2019, PIASA auction house is pleased to offer Scandinavian design collectors a selection of twelve ceramics made by the virtuosity of the Danish designer Axel Johannes Salto (1889-1961).
While burning steel was raining on the Samarian trenches and the clouds of sulfur darkened the sky of a suicidal Europe, the city of Paris never ceased projecting a light that attracts creators from around the world.
Among them, the young Axel Johannes Salto who had the good fortune to meet the painters Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). As a real revelation, this first travel will be followed by a second, in 1925, during which he had the opportunity to present a series of sandstone, commissioned by the Danish company Bing & Grøndahl, at the Danish pavilion of the international exhibition of Modern decorative and industrial arts. Axel Johannes Salto inaugurated with great pomp a successful career during which he produced more than 3,000 pieces, notably in the Carl Halier ceramics workshop in Frederiksberg.
From the early 1930s, he worked mainly with the Royal Copenhagen porcelain factory. The technical virtuosity of the ceramist pushes him to experiment with ambitious glazes which gives the objects an exceptional and recognized plastic quality.
Axel Johannes Salto (1889-1961)
Modèle 20.818 Fruit
Vase
Grès vernissé
Edition Royal Copenhagen
Monogramme et cachet de l’éditeur
Numéroté ‘20818’, trois vagues
Date de création: 1945
H22×Ø16cm
Bibliographie : «Axel Salto, Master of Stoneware»,
Clay - Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark, modèle
reproduit p.180 et référencé sous le n° 272
Estimation: 12 000 / 18 000 euros
Made in 1957, the vase "Model 20.753" is offered for sale with an estimate of between 20,000 and 30,000 euros. Here, as often in the work of Salto, the form finds its origin in the vegetable world.
Axel Johannes Salto (1889-1961)
Modèle 20.753
Vase
Grès émaillé
Edition Royal Copenhagen
Signé en creux ‘Salto’, trois vagues, Denmark
Date de création: 1957
H23×Ø 16cm
Bibliographie : «Axel Salto, Master of Stoneware»,
Clay - Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark, modèle
reproduit p.181 et référencé sous le n° 299
Estimation: 20 000 / 30 000 euros
The "Model 20.818" model dates back to 1945. The vitrified sandstone blisters give the fleshy texture of the fruits with great fidelity. The selection proposed by the house PIASA also contains sections and fixtures like these two lamps "Model 20.658" glazed stoneware.
Axel Johannes Salto (1889-1961)
Modèle 20.713
Vase
Grès émaillé
Date de création : 1944
Edition Royal Copenhagen
H30×Ø30cm
The pieces of Axel Johannes Salto, its particularly popular with fans ever more numerous as evidenced by "Model 20.713" which reached 45,500 euros at the sale of October 10, 2018.
