Nancy Guest b. 1904

  • Artist (Painter)
Painter. In 1926 Guest won the National Gallery Travelling Scholarship with her oil 'The Fortune Teller.'
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painter, Melbourne, painted The Fortune Teller , an oil that won her the National Gallery Travelling Scholarship in 1926. It was sold at Christie’s Melbourne auction part 1, 26 November 1996, lot151 ill.) Guest had worked as a maid in the house of the vendor’s grandfather, where it was found in a shed along with machine parts (est. $12-15,000).

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1999
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