Maltby at auction

http://www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk/Lot/?sale=DA150415&lot=650&id=290091

super duper price paid at auction for a Maltby ..lot no. 633

Well if it's unusual then he can just turn out another dozen similar. Up the price. Sorry, but I just don't get the Maltby thing. I'm sure many potters will be jealous, he seems to be able to sell his stuff as fast as he can make it. Only time will tell if he remains popular.

It's the galleries that are cashing in on the Maltby craze - often triple or quadruple the amount he gets per piece.

I'll be selling my piece very soon and hope the craze for his modern work rubs off

Surprised the boat family went for so much. I bought mine for a lot less, fresh from the gallery.

I often buy pieces direct from potters then watch in amazement and joy as ebayers pay double for them

22 Crawford St. wrote:Well if it's unusual then he can just turn out another dozen similar. Up the price. Sorry, but I just don't get the Maltby thing. I'm sure many potters will be jealous, he seems to be able to sell his stuff as fast as he can make it. Only time will tell if he remains popular.

He doesn't make stuff like that nowadays , I feel that is his best type of work and I think he will remain quite high profile for quite a while to come , maybe even increases , I am not keen on some aspects of his stuff , but other pieces are great .

Talking of prices.....!

http://www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk/Lot/?sale=DA150415&lot=639&id=290080

Yes , one of her pots went for £47,000 the other month , .....because it was a shade of blue apparently

I wonder what was in this lot?

http://www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk/Lot/?sale=DA150415&lot=550&id=289991

... and this

http://www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk/Lot/?sale=DA150415&lot=509&id=289950

studio-pots wrote:... and this

http://www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk/Lot/?sale=DA150415&lot=509&id=289950

apparently quite a few early ray finch and a small decorated lidded MC were in the lot , not shown .

Studio pottery slipware does seem to sell, although I have great difficulty with it.

Yes there is a market for it , but I tend to find all this cardew type stuff very samey , plenty of potters but same sort of forms and decor , jugs with some comb squiggles etc
YAWNNNNNNN..

Ahh, but ed there is nothing stopping him making more is there? If that type are going for more then wack out 100 no 300?

22 Crawford St. wrote:Ahh, but ed there is nothing stopping him making more is there? If that type are going for more then wack out 100 no 300?

........... except his age, his health problems and perhaps most importantly I don't believe for one minute that even if he was able, that he is the type of person to make anything just for money.

He's 80 this year. I think his days of whacking stuff out are long gone. He also doesn't do commissions; just makes what he fancies that day.

80 is the new 60 .............well i read 60 is the new 40 ..so errr...

NaomiM wrote:He's 80 this year. I think his days of whacking stuff out are long gone. He also doesn't do commissions; just makes what he fancies that day.

I've seen him a few times in recent years, the last time about 9 months ago, and you are correct, Naomi.

Maltby made the paper and wood collages when he was too poor to buy clay and fire a kiln. I don't know what he was selling them for but there's a guy on Facebook with a house full of them - literally hundreds - he's sitting on a small fortune now.

In the same sale of course,a James Tower went for £2800, and an Alan Caiger Smith and an Edmond De Waal went for over £1000.While others failed to sell at all.What it does prove,is that there is starting to be life in a Studio Pottery auction market that has been moribund for many years.
When you compare prices in the booming Art market-where they seem to have gone completely berserk- Studio Pottery is at chicken feed prices. Its probably only natural that the 'smart' money would be looking at opportunities in the Art Market,where prices are low,and there is money to be made in speculation. Such money usually goes for the stars and 'name' artists. Hence prices for that Magic Circle of Big Name Potters are starting to move upwards.
John Maltby has been fairly expensive at Auction for many years. He stopped making this sort of item about 1994 when he had a heart trouble,and turned to making the quirky sculptures. He has always been considered one of the most 'painterly' of studio potters,whose work is very accessible to people who collect pictures. If the Studio pottery market is starting to boom,then its just pure market forces that John Maltby will be one of those in the vanquard.
Not too sure if the vase here was actually that brilliant though!
http://www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk/Lot/?sale=DA150415&lot=633&id=290074