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About Artist:
British artist Margaret Rey was born on August 10, 1911. She died on July 6, 2010, aged 98. Though Margaret Reys career as a potter was all too brief, her pots of the late 1930s are among the best of 20th-century studio ceramics, and her work has been acquired by several museums including the Victoria & Albert.
Rey entered the Royal College of Art in 1932 as a student in the Design Department. William Staite Murray, an important artist of the interwar years, was head of the pottery course, and what was happening there seemed much more exciting. It wasn?t long before Rey made the switch.
Success came fairly quickly for Rey and she was regularly in group exhibitions. In 1937 there were two important exhibitions: the first was a show of many of the best young British potters at the Brygos Gallery in Bond Street. The second, at the Galerie Rouard in Paris, was with such luminaries as Murray, Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie, Charles Vyse and William B. Dalton.
Reviews of these exhibitions consistently praised her work. One critic wrote: Margaret Rey deserves the highest honours. She is daringly fertile in ideas, commanding in technical authority and has a sense of colour denied to her colleagues.
Charles Marriott, the influential Times critic, singled out her pot Gold Earth (now in the Buckinghamshire County Museum Collection) as the finest piece in the exhibition. The high point of her potting career came in 1938 with a major solo exhibition at the Brygos Gallery. There were more than 250 pieces, showing the full range of her work, and purchasers included the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Contemporary Art Society and many major collectors most notably George Eumorfopoulos and the Dean Eric Milner-White.
In 1960 she bought a studio at Forest Green in Surrey and began painting and making sculpture. She worked quite successfully well into her nineties.
Margaret Rey
Lady Justice
- 1972
- Dimensions: 21" x 6" x 6"
- Fine Art Category: sculptures
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- Origin: UK
- Price: $32,500.00 USD
