Guy Head Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Guy Head Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 09, 2024
GUY HEAD (BRITISH 1762 - 1800), IRIS CARRYING WATER OF THE RIVER STYX TO OLYMPUS
Est: £7,000 - £10,000
GUY HEAD (BRITISH 1762-1800)IRIS CARRYING WATER OF THE RIVER STYX TO OLYMPUSOil on canvas191.5 x 147.5cm (75¼ x 58 in.)Guy Head entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1779. He travelled in Italy and by 1787 was a member of the Florence Academy, followed in 1792 by the Accademia di S. Luca in Rome where his diploma work was a neo-classical picture of `Iris'. The present picture may well be another version as it is a subject he returned to more than once. At the time of the French invasion, he took refuge on Nelson's ship in Naples, He died soon after returning to London and many of his neo-classical pictures, copies, especially after Richard Wilson, and his collection of antiquities were sold at auction 1803-5.
Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales
Aug. 21, 2022
Guy Coheleach Panther Head Signed Print
Est: $50 - $150
Guy Coheleach Panther Head Signed Print in good condition. Pencil signed and personalized message. Overall frame size 26.5" x 22.5"
Homestead Auction of Tennessee
Apr. 23, 2021
ATTRIBUTED TO GUY HEAD (CARLISLE 1762-1800 LONDON) - Iris carrying the waters of the River Styx to Olympus
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
ATTRIBUTED TO GUY HEAD (CARLISLE 1762-1800 LONDON) Iris carrying the waters of the River Styx to Olympus oil on canvas 27 ¼ x 22 ½ in. (69.2 x 57.1 cm.)
Christie's
Jan. 19, 2021
Guy Coheleach "Siberian Tiger Head" Signed Print
Est: $40 - $315
25x30 frame 15.75x21 frame
Taos Estate Sales
Nov. 29, 2020
Guy Head
Est: -
(1762 Carlisle/England - 1800 London) Umkreis Die Göttin Iris beim Tragen einer Kanne mit Wasser vom Fluss Styx zum Olymp für Zeus und die anderen Götter Diagonalkomposition mit der über dem Styx schwebenden Iris als Halbakt, im Hintergrund Blick auf eine weite Landschaft. Die klassizistische Darstellung aus der griechischen Mythologie beruht auf einem berühmten Gemälde Heads, das sich in eigenhändigen Versionen und Repliken von anderer Hand erhalten hat und auch als Stich publiziert wurde. Head studierte bei J. B. Gilpin und besuchte ab 1778 die Royal Academy. 1781-1798 war er in Italien, bevor er nach Großbritannien zurückkehrte. Öl/Lwd., doubl.; 61 cm x 48 cm. Rahmen. Circle of Guy Head (1753/62 - 1800). Oil on canvas, relined.
Kunstauktionshaus Schloss Ahlden
Jul. 31, 2020
Guy Coheleach-Leopard Head
Est: $150 - $250
Guy Coheleach (1933-)American wildlife artist. Has exhibited in over 41 one-man exhibitions across the United States. Has won many wildlife awards. Was featured on PBS with Journeys of an Artist. Is best known for his African animal portrayals. Offset lithograph. Signed L.C. 1973
Howard Price Fine Art
Jul. 23, 2020
Guy Head (1753-1800): Iris
Est: $800 - $1,200
Oil on canvas, unsigned. 24 x 19 in., 28 x 23 in. (frame). Sold Sotheby's Arcade, NY, March 15, 1985, Lot 66A. The Collection of Matthew Rutenberg
STAIR
Oct. 10, 2019
Guy Coheleach Print, White Tiger Head
Est: $10 - $1,000
Artist Signed And Embossed. Rustic Wood Frame, Under Glass: 31" X 27.5".
Berner's Auction Gallery
Oct. 10, 2019
Guy Coheleach Print, Snow Leopard Head
Est: $10 - $1,000
Artist Signed And Embossed. Rustic Wood Frame, Under Glass: 31" X 27.5".
Berner's Auction Gallery
Aug. 10, 2019
Guy Coheleach Signed Print "Leopard Head" framed double signed
Est: -
Guy Coheleach Signed Print "Leopard Head" in very good condition from estate 24" x 28" framed
A KLEINS AUCTION GALLERY LLC
Oct. 08, 2016
Attributed Guy Head Framed Oil On Canvas
Est: $300 - $500
Juno and the Nymph Echo. Painting measures 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches. With the frame 21 x 17. Titled but no visible signature. Condition . Paint cracking, Re-lined some minor restorations.
Donley Auction Services
Dec. 02, 2014
Circle of Guy Head (Carlisle 1753-1800 London)
Est: £2,000 - £4,000
Circle of Guy Head (Carlisle 1753-1800 London) Aurora; and Iris carrying the water of the River Styx to Olympus oil on canvas 28 ¾ x 24 ½ in. (73 x 62 cm.) and 29 ¼ x 24 ½ in. (74.2 x 62 cm.) (2)
Christie's
Apr. 21, 2011
Guy Head (1753-1800), Iris, oil on canvas, 67.5 x
Est: £2,000 - £2,500
Guy Head (1753-1800), Iris, oil on canvas, 67.5 x 54.5cm.; 26.5 x 21.5in.
Wilson55
Oct. 29, 2008
Circle of Guy Head (Carlisle 1762-1800 London)
Est: £4,000 - £6,000
Circle of Guy Head (Carlisle 1762-1800 London) Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, in chains oil on canvas 49 x 35 in. (124.5 x 88.9 cm.)
Christie's
Jul. 16, 2008
Attributed to Guy Head (1762-1800) Zenobia Queen
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
Attributed to Guy Head (1762-1800) Zenobia Queen of Palmyra conducted in chains through the streets of Rome Oil on canvas 125 x 89cm; 49 x 35in Lined and restored
Woolley & Wallis
Jun. 07, 2006
GUY HEAD 1753-1800
Est: £20,000 - £30,000
IRIS CARRYING WATERS OF THE RIVER STYX TO OLYMPUS FOR THE GODS TO SWEAR BY measurements note 195 by 146cm., 76¾by 57½ in. oil on canvas PROVENANCE Anon. sale, Christie's, 23rd November 1979, lot 141 EXHIBITED Royal Academy, 1800, no.229 LITERATURE Ann Gunn, 'Guy Head's 'Venus and Juno', Burlington Magazine, August 1991, illustrated fig.34 NOTE '...And there dwells the goddess loathed by the deathless gods, terrible Styx, eldest daughter of back-flowing Ocean. She lives apart from the gods in her glorious house vaulted over with great rocks and propped up to heaven all round with silver pillars. Rarely does the daughter of Thaumas, swift- footed Iris, come to her with a message over the sea's wide back. But when strife and quarrel arise among the deathless gods, and when any of them who live in the house of Olympus lies, then Zeus sends Iris to bring in a golden jug the great oath of the gods from far away, the famous cold water which trickles down from a high and beetling rock' So wrote Hesiod in his Theoginis (ll. 775-806). Any immortal that pours the waters of Styx and swears the oath is bound to tell the truth. The punishment for breaking such an oath is one year without ambrosia, nectar or air. Thus the water of Styx often was the last device for Zeus to restrain the lying gods and goddesses, especially his wife Juno, who, according to Homer's Iliad, was often made to swear by the waters of the underworld river. It is not known whether this subject, Iris, was of particular symbolic significance to Guy Head, but we cannot exclude this possibility, as the painter chose it for its morçeau de reception at the Roman Accademia di San Luca in 1793, a year after his election there as accademico di merito. The present lot is an author's replica of the Accademia painting and several later copies of the same composition by followers are known. Iris represents the idealised type of female beauty so favoured by the neo classicists. The same combination of Grecian features, long-limbed bodies and voluptuous, sensual flesh, dark blonde hair and full lips repeats throughout Head's oeuvre and can be recognised in his other paintings, namely Venus giving her girdle to Juno (Castle Museum, Notingham), Echo flying from Narcissus (Institute of Arts, Detroit), Oedipus and Antigone (Galleria dell'Accademia di Belle Arti, Parma). The composition of the flying Iris is Head's tribute to Guido Reni, and it seems unquestionably to derive from the wind-blown robe from Reni's Aurora, the fresco in the Casino Rospigliosi, which Head is known to have copied. The diagonal composition of the figure was probably derived from another Reni painting, Fortuna, a copy of which was in the Academy's collection, and was much admired by Head. In his own turn, Guy Head was much admired by his foreign contemporaries and this recognition materialised in academic posts and numerous copies of his paintings. Born in Carlisle in 1760, Head received his first lessons in painting from private teachers and continued his education at the Royal Academy Schools, where he appears to have become a protégé of Reynolds. Between 1781 and 1786 he travelled in Flanders, Germany and Holland and by 1788 has settled in Rome, having already become a member of the Academies of Kassel, Florence, Bologna and Parma. Later, in 1792 he was received into Academia di San Luca and in 1796 he was appointed to direct Academy's external affairs. In 1798 Head evacuated from Italy with Nelson's fleet and returned to England, where he exhibited works at Royal Academy. His death in 1800 was followed by several posthumous sales of his paintings.
Sotheby's
Jul. 01, 2004
GUY HEAD 1753-1800
Est: £5,000 - £7,000
oil on canvas
Sotheby's