Carlton
Clifford Bayliss 1912-1989
Paintings, drawings and gouaches 1940s - 1980s
from the estate of the artist, London
17th September - 8th October 2011
Bernard Smith, the late, eminent art historian said of Clifford Bayliss in his foreword to our first exhibition back in 1995 ‘The range of technical skills are diverse… a brilliant draughtsman who directed his skills towards fantasy and the grotesque… Bayliss is an expatriate of distinction that we should know more about than we do. Examples of his work should be in all our public galleries” Since then, the National Gallery in Canberra has acquired twenty two works and the Australian War Memorial has three.
In 1993, Alan McCulloch said of Bayliss, "....the NGV school was the only place for young aspiring artists. There were some wonderful students. Roger Kemp was a tall, spectacular figure at the NGV in those days; quite a romantic and he had a lot of talent. But the star was Clifford Bayliss who could draw like Leonardo, and was a bohemian when it was not done. Bayliss was very poor and did these beautiful drawings, and seemed destined to win the travelling scholarship, which he did. But he won at the wrong time, just before the war, and arrived in London and vanished into the services....." Conversations with Alan McCulloch by Christopher Heathcote, Art Monthly, April 1993, no. 58, page 15
Ink
28 x 21.5 cm
Reserved for the National Gallery, Canberra
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Clifford Bayliss
Nude woman with arm raised and open door
Ink
28 x 21.5 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Man with pincers and crustacean
Ink
32.2 x 19.6 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Nude women and aeroplane
Ink
31 x 24.7 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Woman with chains
Ink
31 x 19 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Nude women holding banners
Ink
28 x 22 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Fight for cruiserweight
Pencil
27.3 x 18.2 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Boxers
Pencil and crayon
23.2 x 19.7 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Faces 1958
Pencil
43 x 37.3 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Stage design for Medea, London 1959
Mixed media
36 x 55.5 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Landscape with perched rock
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
Clifford Bayliss
Ruins of ancient culture
Mixed media
50.5 x 76 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Standing Nude 1962
Brown crayon
56 x 38 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Standing Nude 1960
Brown crayon
56 x 38 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Horse (8) and Rider
Pencil
38 x 56 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Colour study 5
Pencil and gouache
11.5 x 23.4 cm
The colour studies were all done between 1968 and ‘72
Clifford Bayliss
Colour study 6
Pencil and gouache
18 x 24.2 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Colour study 8
Pencil and gouache
15.5 x 20.8 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Colour study 9
Gouache
18 x 29.3 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Colour study 15
Gouache
13.8 x 21 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Colour study 14
Gouache
13.2 x 18.6 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Colour study 16
Gouache
14 x 24 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Colour study 19
Gouache
18.7 x 13.8 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Colour study 20
Gouache
29.8 x 17.2 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Colour study 21
Gouache
30 x 17.5 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Colour study 22
Gouache
17.6 x 24.3 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Colour study 23
Gouache
24 x 16.5 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Colour study 25
Gouache
23.2 x 22.3 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Horse and jockey in yellow and red
Oil on hardboard
76 x 61 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Horse and jockey by the sea
Oil on hardboard
81 x 60.7 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Horse and jockey with arm raised
Oil on hardboard
61 x 81 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Horse and rider by the sea
Oil on hardboard
81 x 60.7 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Horse and jockey running by the sea
Oil on hardboard
81 x 61 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Jockey with blue horse
Oil on hardboard
76 x 60.7 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Horse and jockey in yellow and orange
Oil on hardboard
81 x 60.7 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Horse and jockey in orange and yellow
Oil on hardboard
76 x 60.7 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Horse and jockey in yellow and red
Oil on hardboard
76 x 61 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Horse and jockey at the track
Oil on hardboard
81 x 60.7 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Horse and rider with arm raised
Oil on hardboard
76 x 61 cm
Clifford Bayliss
Jockey with horse prancing by the sea
Oil on hardboard
81 x 60.7 cm
