Margaret Peggy Reventlow, Abstract Sculpture 'Ten Fathoms' (Swimming Fish) Bronze With Glass Unique Piece

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Margaret Reventlow, American born London, 1915 - 2014, "Ten Fathoms Deep", (swimming fish) bronze with green and red slag glass, … Read more Margaret Reventlow, American born London, 1915 - 2014, "Ten Fathoms Deep", (swimming fish) bronze with green and red slag glass, unsigned, with artist name, title, etc on a label on its swivel base.
Provenance: From the Estate of Countess Margaret Peggy Reventlow, Philanthropist and Artist, Direct Descendent of John Jacob Astor, then to the Oliver Wolcott Library. Reventlow's first exhibition was at the Palm Beach Gallery and she went on to shows in New York, London, Connecticut and Nantucket.



MARGARET PEGGY REVENTLOW (Margaret Astor Drayton)
American, 1915-2014

Peggy was born in London, England on December 20th, 1915. Her father, William Astor Drayton, was a great grandson of John Jacob Astor. In 1942, Peggy became Countess Margaret Reventlow when she married Danish Count Court Haugwitz-Hardenberg Reventlow.
Rentlow studied at Le Cours Maintnon in Paris and at Le College Feminin de Bouffemont. She studied sculpture with Oliver Barret and Felix de Weldon. She attended the Art Students League for six years, studying with Leo Manso and Bruce Dorfman. The resulting abstract paintings are rich and colorful, done in both acrylics and oils. “My paintings are all about movement and color and composition,” she said. “You have to work that way with abstract art.
Reventlow’s first solo New York exhibition took place at Hammer Galleries in 1961 and she exhibited there until 1968. In 1964 she had a solo exhibition at Tiffany and Co. Her work has been presented at the Palm Beach Galleries and at The Alwin Gallery in London as well as in Litchfield, Connecticut; Nantucket; Norfolk, Connecticut and elsewhere.
Her sculptures and paintings reflect her lifelong love of the outdoors and sports. Writing in Arts Magazine, critic William D. Allen remarked on the vibrant character of her work which he compared to that of the noted German Expressionist sculptors Ernst Barlach and Wilhelm Lehmbruck. Countess Reventlow was represented in New York by Viridian Artists. See less