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  • OLIVE CARLETON SMYTH (SCOTTISH 1882-1949)
    Sep. 26, 2024

    OLIVE CARLETON SMYTH (SCOTTISH 1882-1949)

    Est: £4,000 - £6,000

    OLIVE CARLETON SMYTH (SCOTTISH 1882-1949) BACCHANALE Signed, gouache and gold paint on vellum 32cm x 48cm (12.5in x 18.75in) Presented by J. A. D. McKean, 1929. Titled ‘Bacchant’ in Illustrated Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture in the Collections of Paisley Corporation and Paisley Art Institute, 1948. Exhibited:Kirkcudbright Town Hall, The Glasgow Girls 1920-1960, 2014, cat.no.8. Literature: Jude Burkhauser (ed), Glasgow Girls, Women in Art and Design 1880-1920, Canongate, Edinburgh, 1990, p.171, illustrated, no.226;Liz Arthur, Glasgow Girls - Artists and Designers, 1920-1960, Kirkcudbright 2000 Ltd, 2014, cat.no.8, reproduced in colour p.75;Charlotte Rostek, Scottish Women Artists, The Fleming Collection, London, 2021, a detail reproduced in colour p. 18. Olive Carleton Smyth embodied the Glasgow School’s polymath approach to image-making. Her work implemented sgraffito, illumination, gesso and fresco techniques, and she engaged as much with developments made by her Glasgow contemporaries as she did with exemplars from Celtic design and Japanese and Viennese Secessionist art. Carleton Smyth worked closely with her two sisters, one of whom was a costume designer and the other a composer, but regrettably few biographical details about Olive Carleton Smyth’s life have survived. A 1937 Glasgow art critic affords us a glimpse of this elusive artist’s character by describing her as ‘small, fast taking and tweed-suited.’ (Press clipping, ‘As Dainty as a Baby’s Sneeze’. Glasgow Herald, 1937, Glasgow School of Art Press Cutting Book; Jude Burkhauser (ed), Glasgow Girls, Women in Art and Design 1880-1920, Canongate, Edinburgh, 1990, pp.170-171).Bacchanale is an outstanding example of Olive Carleyon Smyth’s talent, and dates to the period just before she was appointed Head of the Design Department at the Glasgow School of Art. The prancing troupe of figures and animals in the Bacchanalian revel are organised around diagonal lines from the lower right to the upper left, which lends the complex composition a decorative refinement. Carleton Smyth is recorded as having enjoyed painting on vellum as it ‘gave the effect of figures drawn on ivory’. (ibid.) 

    Lyon & Turnbull
  • OLIVE CARLETON SMYTH (1882-1949) PLAYTIME
    Apr. 22, 2021

    OLIVE CARLETON SMYTH (1882-1949) PLAYTIME

    Est: £1,000 - £2,000

    OLIVE CARLETON SMYTH (1882-1949) PLAYTIME watercolour and bodycolour, signed lower right O.C. SMYTH (20cm x 30cm)

    Lyon & Turnbull
  • OLIVE CARLETON SMYTH (1882-1949) 'THE PIPES OF PAN'
    Apr. 01, 2020

    OLIVE CARLETON SMYTH (1882-1949) 'THE PIPES OF PAN'

    Est: £2,000 - £3,000

    tempera on vellum, signed with initials lower right OCS, within contemporary silvered frame (Dimensions: 24.5cm x 40.5cm)

    Lyon & Turnbull
  • OLIVE CARLETON SMYTH (1882-1949) THE PIPES OF PAN 24.5cm x 40.5cm
    Jun. 15, 2011

    OLIVE CARLETON SMYTH (1882-1949) THE PIPES OF PAN 24.5cm x 40.5cm

    Est: £2,000 - £3,000

    OLIVE CARLETON SMYTH (1882-1949) THE PIPES OF PAN Tempera on velum, signed within contemporary silvered frame 24.5cm x 40.5cm

    Lyon & Turnbull
  • Olive Carleton Smyth , 1882-1949 Pytheas Buys Amber tempera and gold paint on vellum, held in its original ornately decorated hexagonal wooden frame
    May. 01, 2008

    Olive Carleton Smyth , 1882-1949 Pytheas Buys Amber tempera and gold paint on vellum, held in its original ornately decorated hexagonal wooden frame

    Est: £15,000 - £20,000

    signed l.r.: OLIVE SMYTH tempera and gold paint on vellum, held in its original ornately decorated hexagonal wooden frame

    Sotheby's
  • Olive Carleton Smyth , 1882-1949 Scheherazade pen, ink and gouache with gold paint on vellum
    May. 01, 2008

    Olive Carleton Smyth , 1882-1949 Scheherazade pen, ink and gouache with gold paint on vellum

    Est: £3,000 - £5,000

    signed l.l.: OLIVE CARLETON SMYTH pen, ink and gouache with gold paint on vellum

    Sotheby's
  • Olive Carleton Smyth , 1882-1949 an eastern goddess pencil, pen, ink and gouache with gold paint on vellum
    May. 01, 2008

    Olive Carleton Smyth , 1882-1949 an eastern goddess pencil, pen, ink and gouache with gold paint on vellum

    Est: £3,000 - £5,000

    signed and dated l.r.: OLIVE CARLETON SMYTH 1910. pencil, pen, ink and gouache with gold paint on vellum

    Sotheby's
  • OLIVE CARLETON SMYTH (1882-1949) THE FAIRGROUND 38cm x 25.5cm (15in x 10in)
    Nov. 28, 2006

    OLIVE CARLETON SMYTH (1882-1949) THE FAIRGROUND 38cm x 25.5cm (15in x 10in)

    Est: £2,000 - £3,000

    OLIVE CARLETON SMYTH (1882-1949) THE FAIRGROUND Gouache 38cm x 25.5cm (15in x 10in)

    Lyon & Turnbull
  • Olive Carleton Smyth
    Apr. 01, 1999

    Olive Carleton Smyth

    Est: $8,000 - $12,000

    'pytheas buys amber', 1927 body colour on vellum, elaborate modern frame signed 'Olive Smyth' 34 by 39cm., 13G by 15Gin. sight area, framed and glazed Exhibited: Jude Burkhauser (ed.), Glasgow Girls Women in Art and Design 1880-1920, Glasgow Art Galleries & Museums and The Glasgow School of Art, exhibition catalogue, 1990, pp. 170-172, fig. 228.

    Sotheby's
  • Olive Carleton Smyth
    Apr. 01, 1999

    Olive Carleton Smyth

    Est: $8,000 - $12,000

    'the guardiani', 1925 body colour on vellum, elaborate modern frame signed 'Olive Carleton Smyth' 31 by 24.5cm., 12D by 9Kin., framed and glazed Exhibited: Jude Burkhauser (ed.), Glasgow Girls Women in Art and Design 1880-1920, Glasgow Art Galleries & Museums and The Glasgow School of Art, exhibition catalogue, 1990, pp. 170-172, fig. 229.

    Sotheby's
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