Gorgeous, collectable decorative pot, hand-painted scene. 1960's. Signed by the artist. Rare.
Guy Boyd (12 June 1923 – 26 April 1988) Renowned ceramicist and sculptor, over 50 gallery exhibitions.
Weight: 150grams
(without packaging). Dimensions: 90mm Diameter height: 70mm Base diameter: 50mm
After World War 2, Boyd worked as a potter, establishing both Martin Boyd Pottery and later Guy Boyd Pottery. These studios mass-produced a wide range of modernist objects from house-wares to decorative pieces which enjoyed strong commercial success.Iconic Australian imagery, particularly flora and indigenous motifs.(Reference Milgrom, L. (2017). I love a Sunburnt country.)
Guy Boyd used figuration throughout his career, rarely worked directly from a life model, preferring to rely from memory, of bodies in movement and gestures. His subjects girls and women and for the earliest of his exhibitions of the 1960s he referred to record covers and magazine pictures of African dancers. These referecnes can be seen in this small themed round pot, scene featuring reclining figure lying under tree blossoms, mountain, grassland and kangaroo (or wallaby).
Born in Murrumbeena, Victoria, Guy was the third child of William Meric Boyd potter, and his wife Doris Lucy Eleanor Bloomfield, née Gough, a painter, and thus was a member of the
Boyd artist dynasty.
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