Clifford Bayliss
1912 - 1989
Clifford Bayliss was born in Footscray, where he attended the local primary and technical schools, before training as an engineer with Mephan Ferguson. With a passion for drawing, he went on to the National Gallery School where he won the Travelling Scholarship for 1935. He left Australia in 1936, never to return.
Bayliss arrived in London just before the outbreak of World War II. During the war he led a rescue squad in a central London blitz. This had a profound effect on him. At the end of the war he worked as an excavation plant manager in the north of England, then later as an assistant to the photographer Geoffrey Gilbert.
Between 1955 and 1963 he worked as a production assistant at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, then taught technical drawing part-time at the London College of Printing; the Central School of Art and Croyden College of Art and Technology. He continued to draw and paint until a few days before he died and although he never returned to Australia, his main aim was always to send the work back here.
Alannah Coleman, Bernard Smith and John Barkes were instrumental in enabling this gallery to show the works of Clifford Bayliss.
The exhibitions would not have eventuated without the support of Cliff's widow, Josephine, to whom we are very grateful.
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Clown Unwrapping his Dreams c1940s
Charcoal
96 x 57 cm
$7,500
Faces 1958
Pencil
43 x 37.3 cm
Boxers
Pencil and crayon
23.2 x 19.7 cm
Fight for cruiserweight
Pencil
27.3 x 18.2 cm
Nude women holding banners
Ink
28 x 22 cm
Woman with chains
Ink
31 x 19 cm
Nude women and aeroplane
Ink
31 x 24.7 cm
Man with pincers and crustacean
Ink
32.2 x 19.6 cm
Nude woman with arm raised and open door
Ink
28 x 21.5 cm
Man with a Walking Stick c1940s
Ink
21.5 x 28 cm
Aviator with Four Pyramidal Forms c1945
Ink
19.7 x 32 cm
Jockey with horse prancing by the sea
Oil on hardboard
81 x 60.7 cm
Horse and rider with arm raised
Oil on hardboard
76 x 61 cm
Horse and jockey at the track
Oil on hardboard
81 x 60.7 cm
Horse and jockey in yellow and red
Oil on hardboard
76 x 61 cm
Horse and jockey in orange and yellow
Oil on hardboard
76 x 60.7 cm
Horse and jockey in yellow and orange
Oil on hardboard
81 x 60.7 cm
Jockey with blue horse
Oil on hardboard
76 x 60.7 cm
Horse and jockey running by the sea
Oil on hardboard
81 x 61 cm
Horse and rider by the sea
Oil on hardboard
81 x 60.7 cm
Horse and jockey with arm raised
Oil on hardboard
61 x 81 cm
Horse and jockey by the sea
Oil on hardboard
81 x 60.7 cm
Horse and jockey in yellow and red
Oil on hardboard
76 x 61 cm
Horse (8) and Rider
Pencil
38 x 56 cm
Pencil
41 x 28.5 cm
$1,450
Colour study 25
Gouache
23.2 x 22.3 cm
Gouache
19.3 x 25.2 cm
Colour study 23
Gouache
24 x 16.5 cm
Colour study 22
Gouache
17.6 x 24.3 cm
Colour study 21
Gouache
30 x 17.5 cm
Colour study 20
Gouache
29.8 x 17.2 cm
Colour study 19
Gouache
18.7 x 13.8 cm
Gouache
20.4 x 17.7 cm
Colour study 16
Gouache
14 x 24 cm
Colour study 14
Gouache
13.2 x 18.6 cm
Colour study 12
Gouache
13.8 x 21 cm
Colour study 15
Gouache
13.8 x 21 cm
Colour study 9
Gouache
18 x 29.3 cm
Colour study 8
Pencil and gouache
15.5 x 20.8 cm
Colour study 6
Pencil and gouache
18 x 24.2 cm
Pencil and gouache
11.5 x 23.4 cm
The colour studies were all done between 1968 and ‘72
Towers, Grey Tone Study 1965-70
Oil on hardboard
91 x 61 cm
Flying Forms, Grey Tone Study 1965-70
Oil on hardboard
91 x 61 cm
Study in Green Shades with Orange and Red Shapes 1965-70
Acrylic on hardboard
61 x 61 cm
Study in Violet with Red and Gold Circles 1965-70
Oil on hardboard
61 x 61 cm
Stage design for Medea, London 1959
Mixed media
36 x 55.5 cm
Standing Nude 1960
Brown crayon
56 x 38 cm
Standing Nude 1962
Brown crayon
56 x 38 cm
Tower with Arms and Chains 1970-80
Metal sculpture of soldered tin, brass plates, chains and watch parts
135 cm
$4,500
Ruins of ancient culture
Mixed media
50.5 x 76 cm
Mixed media
50.5 x 76 cm
Cliff worked as Production Assistant at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden from 1955 to 1963. These landscapes date from that time
Margot Fonteyn as Ondine c1958
Oil on board
91.5 x 61 cm
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