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        • GREY-SMITH Guy Edward (1916-1981), Seated Nude, 1978., Woodcut A/P, 61.5x30.5cm
          Dec. 07, 2024

          GREY-SMITH Guy Edward (1916-1981), Seated Nude, 1978., Woodcut A/P, 61.5x30.5cm

          Est: $400 - $700

          GREY-SMITH, Guy Edward (1916-1981) Seated Nude, 1978. Woodcut A/P 61.5x30.5cm

          Davidson Auctions
        • Guy Grey Smith 1916 - 1981.
          Dec. 03, 2024

          Guy Grey Smith 1916 - 1981.

          Est: $800 - $1,400

          Guy Grey Smith 1916 - 1981. "The Saw Millers", 1973. Seriagraph. Signed, dated and numbered 10/22 lower right. 47.2 cm x 52 cm.

          McKenzies Auctioneers
        • Guy Grey Smith 1916 - 1981.
          Dec. 03, 2024

          Guy Grey Smith 1916 - 1981.

          Est: $900 - $1,400

          Guy Grey Smith 1916 - 1981. "Emus", 1960. Seriagraph, signed, dated and numbered 17/30 lower right. Edith Cowan University Art Collection label on verso. 65 cm x 45 cm.

          McKenzies Auctioneers
        • Guy Grey Smith 1916-1981.
          Dec. 03, 2024

          Guy Grey Smith 1916-1981.

          Est: $900 - $1,400

          Guy Grey Smith 1916-1981. "International Airport", 1968. Screenprint, signed, dated, & numbered 23/30 lower right. 37x55.5 cm.

          McKenzies Auctioneers
        • Guy Grey Smith 1916 - 1981.
          Dec. 03, 2024

          Guy Grey Smith 1916 - 1981.

          Est: $2,500 - $3,500

          Guy Grey Smith 1916 - 1981. "Landscape". Synthetic polymer paint & ink on paper signed and dated 1973 lower right. 40 cm x 59 cm.

          McKenzies Auctioneers
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - TOWER OF LONDON 1954 - MIXED MEDIA
          Nov. 26, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH - TOWER OF LONDON 1954 - MIXED MEDIA

          Est: $3,000 - $5,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) TOWER OF LONDON 1954 Signed and dated 54 lower right Mixed media 35 x 27cm Estimate $3,000/5,000 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - EIFFEL TOWER 1954 - MIXED MEDIA
          Nov. 26, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH - EIFFEL TOWER 1954 - MIXED MEDIA

          Est: $3,000 - $5,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) EIFFEL TOWER 1954 Signed and dated 54 lower right Mixed media 26 x 33.5cm Estimate $3,000/5,000 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - EVENING ON THE HILLS - OIL AND ACRYLIC ON BOARD
          Nov. 26, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH - EVENING ON THE HILLS - OIL AND ACRYLIC ON BOARD

          Est: $16,000 - $22,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) EVENING ON THE HILLS Signed lower right Oil and acrylic on board 61 x 99cm Estimate $16,000/22,000 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - SEATED NUDE - OIL ON CANVAS
          Nov. 26, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH - SEATED NUDE - OIL ON CANVAS

          Est: $18,000 - $25,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) SEATED NUDE Oil on canvas 60 x 49.5cm Estimate $18,000/25,000 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - SHADES OF GREEN - OIL ON CANVAS
          Nov. 26, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH - SHADES OF GREEN - OIL ON CANVAS

          Est: $9,000 - $12,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) SHADES OF GREEN Signed and dated 57 lower right Oil on canvas 45 x 35cm Estimate $9,000/12,000 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH, PT D’ENTRECASTEAUX, 1976
          Nov. 26, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH, PT D’ENTRECASTEAUX, 1976

          Est: $55,000 - $75,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916 - 1981) PT D’ENTRECASTEAUX, 1976 oil and beeswax on composition board 121.0 x 91.0 cm signed and dated lower right: G Grey Smith / 76 bears inscription on frame verso: GUY GREY-SMITH 'ANN LEWIS' 1978 inscribed verso: 31  PROVENANCE Estate of the artist Gallery 52, Perth Private collection, Perth, acquired from the above in 1982 EXHIBITED A Festival of Perth Exhibition: Paintings by Guy Grey-Smith, Old Fire Station Gallery, Perth, 24 February – 16 March 1977, cat. 31 LITERATURE Gaynor, A., Guy Grey-Smith: Life Force, University of Western Australia, Perth, 2012, p. 266 ESSAY Guy Grey-Smith is renowned for his powerful visions of the Western Australian landscape, in particular the rocky coasts of the south-west. This love of the sea was instilled in him as a child, travelling over two hundred kilometres with his family for holidays at places like Bunkers Bay and Canal Rocks. These journeys, occasionally by horse and cart, also took in the variety of the natural world as they passed through woodland, fields of wildflowers and soaring karri forests. In Pt D’Entrecasteaux, 1976, Grey-Smith stands 240 kilometres further south at Black Point (now known as Tookulup), a small promontory that looks towards the spectacular Point D’Entrecasteaux, named after the French Admiral who was the first European to sight the area in 1792. Coastal paintings appear at most stages of Grey-Smith’s trajectory and following them consecutively, they provide signposts as his technique altered to become the celebrated slab paintings of the 1960s and 1970s. Early works such as Albany Landscape (Torbay), 1951 (private collection), and Longreach Bay, Rottnest, 1954 (Art Gallery of Western Australia) are descriptive of the rhythms and natural patterns of the ocean but are still, even placid, when compared to the spiky rock outcrops in Bunker Bay (Winter), 1956 (private collection) and Bunker Bay, 1960 (private collection). Conversely, in Kalbarri Landscape, 1959 (Artbank), the crash of the waves and the surge of the rolling surf resonate throughout the scene. Abandoning the theme for much of the 1960s, Grey-Smith returned in the mid-1970s with a passionate sequence of paintings done in his (by-now) trademark process of pigment thickened with a home-made wax emulsion applied using paint scrapers. The work on offer here, Pt D’Entrecasteaux, 1976, belongs to this series and it appears that Grey-Smith has climbed down just below the summit of Black Point, as the lower half of the painting is highly suggestive of the heavily eroded rock forms within the one-hundred-metre-high limestone cliff. This upthrust is then counterbalanced by the horizontality of Point D’Entrecasteaux itself, rendered as a ghostly blue apparition cutting left to right above. Suggestive of a primaeval life force, Grey-Smith succeeds here in ‘divorcing abstraction from romantic self-expression… (his) concern is with the thing, and its value to other observers, and not primarily with the autobiography of (his) own feelings. This kind of classical abstractionism is perhaps more valuable than romantic abstract expressionism, and harder to come by.’1 Pt D’Entrecasteaux was exhibited at Grey-Smith’s remarkable exhibition of 1977 held at Rie Heyman’s Old Fire Station Gallery in Subiaco, Perth, full of ‘glorious colour which seemed to pour out of the gallery as we walked up the street.’2 To coincide with the show, Art and Australia published an extended article by noted curator Barry Pearce who celebrated that the artist was deliberately pushing his own boundaries, which was ‘typical of the energetic character of Guy Grey-Smith in seeking to improve and extend the possibilities of his subject without plagiarising himself, and there is no sign of relaxation of his prolific output.’3 Grey-Smith died in 1981 after two equally powerful exhibitions mounted by Ann Lewis at Gallery A in Sydney; and the current owners purchased Pt D’Entrecasteaux from respected Perth gallerist Wendy Rogers in 1982. It has not been seen publicly since. 1. Hutchings, P., ‘The Grey-Smiths’, The Critic, Perth, vol. 2, no. 10, 25 May 1962, p. 82 2. Thomas, C.V., cited in Gaynor, A., Guy Grey-Smith: life force, University of Western Australia Publishing, Perth, 2012, p. 104 3. Pearce, B., ‘Guy Grey-Smith: painter in isolation’, Art and Australia, vol. 15, no. 1, 1977, p. 69 ANDREW GAYNOR

          Deutscher and Hackett
        • Guy Grey-Smith, 1916-1981, Nulagine Hills North West WA, Woodblock Printed from one block on paper, 20 x 46 cm. (7.8 x 18.1 in.), Frame: 43.5 x 68 cm. (17.1 x 26.7 in.)
          Nov. 13, 2024

          Guy Grey-Smith, 1916-1981, Nulagine Hills North West WA, Woodblock Printed from one block on paper, 20 x 46 cm. (7.8 x 18.1 in.), Frame: 43.5 x 68 cm. (17.1 x 26.7 in.)

          Est: $500 - $700

          Guy Grey-Smith 1916-1981 Nulagine Hills North West WA Woodblock Printed from one block on paper signed, dated '75 and editions 39/58 lower right A rare woodblock print Edition 12/58 is held in the National Gallery of Australia

          For-Auction
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - SKULL SPRINGS COUNTRY - POSTER FROM 1976/7 RETROSPECTIVE
          Oct. 16, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH - SKULL SPRINGS COUNTRY - POSTER FROM 1976/7 RETROSPECTIVE

          Est: $450 - $650

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) SKULL SPRINGS COUNTRY Signed in margin Poster from 1976/7 Retrospective 43 x 65cm Estimate $450/650 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH (1916 - 1981), Limited Edition Woodblock, 1979, Title: Nullagine Hills, Signed Lower Right, Dated Lower Right, Editioned Lower Right: 39/58
          Sep. 13, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916 - 1981), Limited Edition Woodblock, 1979, Title: Nullagine Hills, Signed Lower Right, Dated Lower Right, Editioned Lower Right: 39/58

          Est: $300 - $400

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916 - 1981), Limited Edition Woodblock, 1975, Title: Nullagine Gills Signed Lower Right, Dated Lower Right, Editioned Lower Right: 39/58

          Moorabool Auctions
        • GUY GREY-SMITH (1916 - 1981), Limited Edition Woodblock, 1979, Title: Little Rooster, Signed Lower Right, Dated Lower Right, Editioned Lower Right: 11/38
          Sep. 13, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916 - 1981), Limited Edition Woodblock, 1979, Title: Little Rooster, Signed Lower Right, Dated Lower Right, Editioned Lower Right: 11/38

          Est: $200 - $400

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916 - 1981), Limited Edition Woodblock, 1979, Title: Little Rooster, Signed Lower Right, Dated Lower Right, also numbered '11/38'

          Moorabool Auctions
        • Guy Grey-Smith, (1916-1981), Meekatharra, 1980, oil on board, 90 x 120 cm
          Aug. 27, 2024

          Guy Grey-Smith, (1916-1981), Meekatharra, 1980, oil on board, 90 x 120 cm

          Est: $40,000 - $60,000

          Guy Grey-Smith (1916-1981) Meekatharra, 1980 oil on board signed l.r.c. 'G Grey Smith', signed and titled verso 'Guy Grey-Smith, Meekatharra'

          Shapiro Auctioneers
        • Guy Grey-Smith (1916-1981) Midhurst, 1944
          Aug. 27, 2024

          Guy Grey-Smith (1916-1981) Midhurst, 1944

          Est: $3,000 - $5,000

          Guy Grey-Smith (1916-1981) Midhurst, 1944 titled and dated verso: 'MIDHURST ENGLAND / 1944' watercolour on paper 34.0 x 41.0cm (13 3/8 x 16 1/8in).

          Bonhams
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - MINE SITE - ETCHING
          Aug. 18, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH - MINE SITE - ETCHING

          Est: $500 - $800

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) MINE SITE Signed and dated 74 on image Etching 24.5 x 37cm Estimate $500/800 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - UNTITLED - OIL AND BEESWAX EMULSION ON BOARD
          Aug. 18, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH - UNTITLED - OIL AND BEESWAX EMULSION ON BOARD

          Est: $7,000 - $9,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) UNTITLED Signed lower left Oil and beeswax emulsion on board 35 x 22.5cm Estimate $7,000/9,000 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - UNTITLED - WOODCUT
          Jul. 24, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH - UNTITLED - WOODCUT

          Est: $450 - $650

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) UNTITLED Signed and editioned in margin Woodcut 17 x 30cm Estimate $450/650 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - JUG AND BEAKERS - GLAZED AND DECORATED TERRACOTTA
          Jul. 24, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH - JUG AND BEAKERS - GLAZED AND DECORATED TERRACOTTA

          Est: $900 - $1,800

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) JUG AND BEAKERS Signed on base Glazed and decorated terracotta Various Estimate $900/1,800 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - KARRI FOREST - SCREENPRINT
          May. 21, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH - KARRI FOREST - SCREENPRINT

          Est: $1,800 - $2,500

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) KARRI FOREST Signed lower right on image Screenprint 52 x 71cm Estimate $1,800/2,500 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - FIGURE - ACRYLIC ON CARD
          May. 21, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH - FIGURE - ACRYLIC ON CARD

          Est: $3,000 - $5,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) FIGURE Signed lower right Acrylic on card 64 x 48cm Estimate $3,000/5,000 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - TIDAL CREEK I - WATERCOLOUR AND GOUACHE
          May. 21, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH - TIDAL CREEK I - WATERCOLOUR AND GOUACHE

          Est: $3,000 - $5,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) TIDAL CREEK I Signed and dated 76 lower right Watercolour and gouache 29 x 44cm Estimate $3,000/5,000 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - TERRACED LANDSCAPE 1971 - ACRYLIC ON PAPER
          May. 21, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH - TERRACED LANDSCAPE 1971 - ACRYLIC ON PAPER

          Est: $4,000 - $6,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) TERRACED LANDSCAPE 1971 Signed and dated lower right Acrylic on paper 43 x 57.5cm Estimate $4,000/6,000 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - DE GREY - OIL AND BEESWAX EMULSION ON BOARD
          May. 21, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH - DE GREY - OIL AND BEESWAX EMULSION ON BOARD

          Est: $35,000 - $45,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) DE GREY Signed lower right, titled and dated 1965 verso Oil and beeswax emulsion on board 43 x 80cm Estimate $35,000/45,000 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH, MOUNTAIN QUARRY, GREENMOUNT, 1953
          May. 14, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH, MOUNTAIN QUARRY, GREENMOUNT, 1953

          Est: $18,000 - $25,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916 - 1981) MOUNTAIN QUARRY, GREENMOUNT, 1953 oil on canvas 41.0 x 51.5 cm 56.0 x 66.0 cm (frame) signed lower right: G. Grey-Smith PROVENANCE Gift from the artist to the vendor's mother Private collection, Sydney Davidson Auctions, Sydney, 22 May 2022, lot 16 Gallery one93, Noosa, Queensland Private collection, Queensland This work is located in our Sydney Gallery

          Deutscher and Hackett
        • GUY GREY-SMITH, NUDE STUDY, 1947
          May. 14, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH, NUDE STUDY, 1947

          Est: $3,000 - $5,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916 - 1981) NUDE STUDY, 1947 oil on canvas 51.0 x 41.0 cm 57.0 x 47.0 cm (frame) signed and dated lower left: G Grey Smith / 47 PROVENANCE The Skinner Collection, Perth Thence by descent Private collection, Perth This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery

          Deutscher and Hackett
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - SANDSTONE COUNTRY - ETCHING AND AQUATINT
          Mar. 10, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH - SANDSTONE COUNTRY - ETCHING AND AQUATINT

          Est: $700 - $900

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) SANDSTONE COUNTRY Signed and editioned in margin Etching and aquatint 50 x 60cm Estimate $700/900 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - MOUNT VERNON - WOODCUT
          Mar. 10, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH - MOUNT VERNON - WOODCUT

          Est: $300 - $600

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) MOUNT VERNON Signed and inscribed in margin Woodcut 20 x 46.5cm Estimate $300/600 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - COASTLINE - WATERCOLOUR
          Mar. 10, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH - COASTLINE - WATERCOLOUR

          Est: $4,000 - $6,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) COASTLINE Signed and dated 78 lower right Watercolour 47 x 63.5cm Estimate $4,000/6,000 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - UNTITLED - WOODCUT
          Mar. 10, 2024

          GUY GREY-SMITH - UNTITLED - WOODCUT

          Est: $600 - $800

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) UNTITLED Signed and inscribed in margin Woodcut 17 x 30cm Estimate $600/800 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH, CASCADES, 1976
          Nov. 22, 2023

          GUY GREY-SMITH, CASCADES, 1976

          Est: $40,000 - $60,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916 - 1981) CASCADES, 1976 oil and beeswax emulsion on gauze on composition board 120.0 x 90.0 cm signed and dated lower right: G. Grey Smith / 76 bears inscription verso: Guy GREY–SMITH “Cascades” PROVENANCE Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1977 Private collection, Melbourne, a gift from the above in 2018 EXHIBITED Ten Western Australian Artists, The Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth, 18 August – 26 September 1976, cat. 2 (illus. in exhibition catalogue) Guy Grey-Smith, Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, opened 11 September 1977, cat. 12 (as 'Cascade') ESSAY Guy Grey-Smith had an emotional attachment to the landscape of Western Australia, with an intensity that was directly transferred to his paintings. As with many who have walked those lands, this connection was also spiritual, even transformative, and for a man whose soul had been so damaged by his experiences during World War Two and then Cambodia in the late 1960s, the dense karri forests of the state’s south-west, where Cascades, 1976, was painted, were particularly healing. He and his wife, the artist Helen Grey-Smith, moved there in 1974 when the encroach of suburbia and a constant stream of visitors made their previous home in the Darling Ranges outside Perth less of the haven that it had been; and the purchase of a small wood-cutters cottage in the timber town of Pemberton ‘suited the two self-described ‘country personalities’ perfectly.’1   Cascades dates from the same year as Grey-Smith’s extensive and acclaimed retrospective was held at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in November 1976, which then toured to Queensland the following year. Although it was not in that show, Cascades was exhibited at the AGWA some months previously in the exhibition Ten Western Australian Artists which is credited as being a moment when the Gallery had ‘finally come out in favour of local art,’2 the retrospective being their next clear statement of intent. By chronologically surveying Grey-Smith’s works from 1945 to 1976, the retrospective allowed viewers to follow his evolving technique from his early days as a patient receiving art therapy in a sanitorium treating him for tuberculosis contracted after four years as a prisoner-of-war followed by study at the Chelsea School of Arts on recovery. By the late 1950s, his painting, ceramics and fresco skills all began to coalesce into masterworks such as Horseshoe Range, 1958 – 61 (Art Gallery of Western Australia) which contained clear indications as to why his subsequent discovery of the work of Nicolas de Staël became so inspirational. By using scrapers and trowels, combined with paint bulked up by a home-made wax medium, Grey-Smith’s paintings were now tectonic expressions of the very essence – the ‘life force’ – of the subjects in front of him. He was no longer a plein air painter and would instead travel extensively through Western Australia, sketching as he went, before returning to the studio to create painterly reimaginings. In the late 1960s, as a result of journeys to Sri Lanka and Bali, he reintroduced the brush which allowed for fluid curves and arcs to counterbalance the planes of slab-paint.   Grey-Smith was appointed Professor of Fine Art at Phnom Penh University in 1969, which tragically coincided with the outbreak of war. He suffered a total nervous collapse as a result which incapacitated him for an extended period, but by 1974 and the move to Pemberton, optimism had returned to his work. The cascades featured in the painting are on the Warren River, not far from the Pemberton cottage, and Grey-Smith perfectly captures the ‘evocative … visual experience of moving between light and dark, so common in a thickly wooded place, and firmly makes the viewer part of the scene.’3 The counterplay of deep blues and striking emerald-green, orange and bruised purple, demonstrates Grey-Smith’s mastery of colour and clearly invokes his deeply emotional reaction to the scene.   1. Gaynor, A., Guy Grey-Smith: life force, University of Western Australia, Perth, 2012, p. 92 2. Cruthers, J., ‘Visual Arts: the gallery scene and a retrospective’, Westerly, Perth, no. 4, December 1976, p. 122 3. Harpley, M., Guy Grey-Smith: art as life, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 2014, p. 14   ANDREW GAYNOR

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        • GUY GREY-SMITH - KARRI FOREST - WOODCUT
          Nov. 21, 2023

          GUY GREY-SMITH - KARRI FOREST - WOODCUT

          Est: $400 - $600

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) KARRI FOREST Signed and dated 75 lower right Woodcut 30 x 20cm Estimate $400/600 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - LANDSCAPE - INK AND WATERCOLOUR
          Nov. 21, 2023

          GUY GREY-SMITH - LANDSCAPE - INK AND WATERCOLOUR

          Est: $3,000 - $5,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) LANDSCAPE Signed and dated 63 lower right Ink and watercolour 34 x 42cm Estimate $3,000/5,000 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - OPEN ROAD THROUGH THE HILLS - INK AND WASH
          Nov. 21, 2023

          GUY GREY-SMITH - OPEN ROAD THROUGH THE HILLS - INK AND WASH

          Est: $1,800 - $2,500

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) OPEN ROAD THROUGH THE HILLS Signed lower right Ink and wash 50 x 67cm Estimate $1,800/2,500 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - THE HURDLERS - OIL AND BEESWAX EMULSION ON HARDBOARD
          Nov. 21, 2023

          GUY GREY-SMITH - THE HURDLERS - OIL AND BEESWAX EMULSION ON HARDBOARD

          Est: $80,000 - $120,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) THE HURDLERS Signed lower right Oil and beeswax emulsion on hardboard 90.5 x 122cm Estimate $80,000/120,000 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH - DARLING RANGE - OIL ON BOARD
          Nov. 21, 2023

          GUY GREY-SMITH - DARLING RANGE - OIL ON BOARD

          Est: $30,000 - $40,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) DARLING RANGE Signed and dated 57 lower right Oil on board 67 x 90cm Estimate $30,000/40,000 AUD

          GFL Fine Art
        • GUY GREY-SMITH 1916-1981
          Oct. 31, 2023

          GUY GREY-SMITH 1916-1981

          Est: $350 - $550

          "Banksia" 1975 Etching Edition 4/15, signed and dated lower right under image. 23.5 x 25cm Provenance: Another impression (7/15) is held in the collection National Gallery of Australia. Accession number: 93.638.

          McKenzies Auctioneers
        • GUY GREY-SMITH 1916-1981
          Oct. 31, 2023

          GUY GREY-SMITH 1916-1981

          Est: $400 - $600

          "Glazed and Decorated Jug" Terracotta, signed on base. 18.5cm Height x 14cm Width

          McKenzies Auctioneers
        • GUY GREY-SMITH, NUDE STUDY, 1947
          Oct. 10, 2023

          GUY GREY-SMITH, NUDE STUDY, 1947

          Est: $4,000 - $6,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916 - 1981) NUDE STUDY, 1947 oil on canvas 51.0 x 41.0 cm 57.0 x 47.0 cm (frame) signed and dated lower left: G Grey Smith / 47 PROVENANCE The Skinner Collection, Perth Thence by descent Private collection, Perth This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery

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        • GUY GREY-SMITH, VILLAGE SCENE, CORNWALL, 1945
          Oct. 10, 2023

          GUY GREY-SMITH, VILLAGE SCENE, CORNWALL, 1945

          Est: $4,000 - $6,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916 - 1981) VILLAGE SCENE, CORNWALL, 1945 oil on canvas on compressed card 34.5 x 45.0 cm 43.5 x 53.5 cm (frame) signed and dated lower right: G. Grey-Smith / 45 PROVENANCE Mrs Joy Halleen, Perth  The Skinner Collection, Perth Thence by descent Private collection, Perth EXHIBITED Guy Grey-Smith Retrospective 1976 – 1977, The Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth, 11 November - 12 December 1976, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 13 January - 15 February 1977, cat. 1 (label attached verso) LITERATURE Klepac, L.,  Guy Grey-Smith Retrospective, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1976, cat. 1, p. 26 (illus.) Gaynor, A., Guy Grey–Smith: Life Force, University of Western Australia Publishing, Perth, 2012, p. 264 Mason, M., ’88 Works Cover 30 Years of Creativity’, The West Australian, Perth, 11 November 1976, p. 10 This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery

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        • GUY GREY-SMITH, STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS, 1946
          Oct. 10, 2023

          GUY GREY-SMITH, STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS, 1946

          Est: $5,000 - $7,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916 - 1981) STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS, 1946 VERSO: STREET SCENE oil on canvas 41.0 x 31.5 cm 53.0 x 43.0 cm (frame) signed and dated lower right: G Grey Smith / 46 PROVENANCE The Skinner Collection, Perth Thence by descent Private collection, Perth EXHIBITED Guy Grey-Smith Retrospective 1976 – 1977, The Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth, 11 November - 12 December 1976, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 13 January - 15 February 1977, cat. 2 (label attached verso) LITERATURE Klepac, L.,  Guy Grey-Smith Retrospective, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1976, cat. 2, p. 26 (illus.) Gaynor, A., Guy Grey–Smith: Life Force, University of Western Australia Publishing, Perth, 2012, p. 264 This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery

          Deutscher and Hackett
        • GUY GREY-SMITH, PLACE DU TERTRE, PARIS, 1947
          Oct. 10, 2023

          GUY GREY-SMITH, PLACE DU TERTRE, PARIS, 1947

          Est: $8,000 - $12,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916 - 1981) PLACE DU TERTRE, PARIS, 1947 oil on canvas 41.0 x 51.0 cm 55.0 x 65.0 cm (frame) signed and dated lower right: G. Grey Smith / 47 bears inscription verso: PLACE du TERTRE - PARIS ... Guy Grey Smith ... Collection J. Skinner PROVENANCE The Skinner Collection, Perth Thence by descent Private collection, Perth EXHIBITED probably: Catalogue of Paintings in oils, watercolours and pastels by Guy Grey-Smith, Newspaper House Gallery, Perth, 2 – 14 May 1949 This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery

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        • GUY GREY-SMITH - UNTITLED - Glazed and decorated clay vase
          Sep. 14, 2023

          GUY GREY-SMITH - UNTITLED - Glazed and decorated clay vase

          Est: $350 - $550

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) UNTITLED Signed on base Glazed and decorated clay vase 14cm (height) Estimate $350/550 AUD

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        • GUY GREY-SMITH - UNTITLED - Glazed and decorated footed plate
          Sep. 14, 2023

          GUY GREY-SMITH - UNTITLED - Glazed and decorated footed plate

          Est: $250 - $350

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916-1981) UNTITLED Signed on base Glazed and decorated footed plate 24.5 x 5.5cm Estimate $250/350 AUD

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        • GUY GREY-SMITH 1916-1981
          Sep. 05, 2023

          GUY GREY-SMITH 1916-1981

          Est: $600 - $900

          "Temple Flower, Bali" Ink and mixed media on paper on board, signed and dated lower right, 1961. 38 x 24cm

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        • GUY GREY-SMITH, SEASCAPE, 1972
          Aug. 16, 2023

          GUY GREY-SMITH, SEASCAPE, 1972

          Est: $30,000 - $40,000

          GUY GREY-SMITH (1916 - 1981) SEASCAPE, 1972 oil and beeswax emulsion on muslin on composition board 99.0 x 122.0 cm signed and dated lower right: G. Grey-Smith / 72 inscribed verso: 3 GUY GREY-SMITH ‘SEASCAPE’ PROVENANCE Old Fire Station Gallery, Perth Private collection, Western Australia, acquired in the mid 1970s EXHIBITED Guy Grey-Smith, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 12-24 July 1972, cat. 2 G. Grey-Smith, Old Fire Station Gallery, Perth, 21 October – 7 November 1973, cat. 3 Five Festival Artists of the Adelaide Festival of Arts, Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, 9 March – April 1974 (label attached verso) LITERATURE Gaynor, A.,  Guy Grey–Smith: Life Force, University of Western Australia Publishing, Perth, 2012, pp. 262, 263 ESSAY By the early 1970s, Guy Grey-Smith was one of Western Australia’s most travelled artists, having journeyed through much of Europe – including Belgium, Poland and Germany as a POW – and had become in many ways a pioneer of the interaction between Australian and Asian artists through focussed visits in the 1960s to Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), Bali and Cambodia. Already renowned for his arresting, high-colour images utilising paint thickened by a home-made beeswax emulsion and applied with scrapers, the Asian encounters led Grey-Smith to seek ways to go beyond his known style and explore other possibilities. Balinese art in particular had a great impact on the artist and upon his return to Australia, he re-introduced the brush to his paintings, as well as curlicues and arcs inspired by the ornate Hindu temple carvings for which the island is famed. Above the sea, 1968 (Curtin University, Perth) was his first major breakthrough, a shimmering view of the ocean from the air. Thus primed, Grey-Smith and his artist-wife Helen, set off to take up the post of Professor of Fine Art at Phnom Penh University in the second half of 1969.   During the first six months of their stay, Guy taught western painting techniques (whilst a Soviet instructor taught Social Realist painting in the next room) and Helen taught textiles. In their free time, they explored many ancient sites including the Bayon (Prasat Bayoăn) and Angkor Wat attending numerous dances and celebrations in the process. A powerful suite of paintings from this period emerged, following on from direction signalled by Above the sea, but now with greater chromatic intensity and fluency in the brush marks. These include: Neak Pean Angkor 1969; Angkor Wat, 1970; and Cambodian monkey dance, 1970, all now in significant private collections. However, in March 1970, disaster struck. A CIA-backed coup erupted and hostilities began against the North Vietnamese. The Grey-Smiths watched in horror as their students left to take up arms – ‘like lambs to the slaughter’ 1  – and all of Guy’s World War Two trauma returned, leading to a major nervous breakdown. It took a harrowing number of weeks before they could be repatriated and Grey-Smith returned a broken man. Understandably, art was to be his major salvation and he spent the next eighteen months experimenting with acrylic paint with mixed results; but by 1972, he was once again in control and the resultant works became stronger, more optimistic and vital, with Seascape, 1972, being a perfect example.   The exact location for Seascape is unknown, but Grey-Smith spent recuperative time during 1971 at the family’s self-built beach house at Quinns Rocks, north of Perth, and travelled up further through the Murchison and Ashburton districts. There is a brooding sensuality in Seascape, with the rich indigo and ultramarine countered by the lighter tones of the shore-break. The smooth lines of the rounded hills are picked out in yellow and orange, and the tension of the design is accentuated by the contrast of the major areas applied with paint scraper set against the curved delineations done with the brush. Although shown in an exhibition during the Adelaide Festival of Arts in 1974, it appears that Seascape then returned to Perth where it was subsequently purchased from Rie Heyman’s Old Fire Station Gallery in Subiaco.   1. Interview with Guy Grey-Smith, Western Australian Stories on the Arts, ABC program number PWN5179. Date of transmission: 1970.   ANDREW GAYNOR

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