# Guy Grey-Smith artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/guy-grey-smith/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:59:49.611Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Australian
- Movements: Western Australian modernism
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking, Ceramics

## Portrait

![Guy Grey-Smith](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/Guy_Grey-Smith_self_portrait.jpeg)
Guy Grey-Smith · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Grey-Smith

## About Guy Grey-Smith

Guy Grey-Smith (1916–1981) was an Australian visual artist associated with the development of modernism in Western Australia. Public reference sources identify him as a painter, printmaker and ceramicist, so collectors may encounter his name across more than one medium rather than only on canvas. Authority records maintained through Wikidata, VIAF and Getty ULAN distinguish him as the Australian artist also catalogued under forms such as Guy Grey Smith and Smith, Guy Grey. His significance is most clearly framed in the available source pack through his role in Western Australian modernism, although that description is currently supported chiefly by a secondary reference and would benefit from museum or scholarly confirmation. The breadth of his practice helps explain why auction searches may surface paintings, prints and ceramics under variant name forms. Appraisily therefore treats identity matching—especially spelling, hyphenation, life dates and medium—as an essential first step before comparing works or interpreting market records.

## Common works and media

Works encountered under Grey-Smith’s name may include paintings, prints and ceramics—the three practices identified in the collected biography. Search and catalog matching should allow for the hyphenated form Guy Grey-Smith and authority-file variants Guy Grey Smith and Smith, Guy Grey. The source pack does not establish recurring subjects, named series, edition practices, favored supports or signature conventions, so those details should be verified from the object and stronger cataloguing sources.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal purposes, the first task is to establish that an object belongs to the Guy Grey-Smith record rather than merely carrying a similar name or later attribution. Medium and work type matter because the available biography identifies painting, printmaking and ceramics as distinct parts of his practice; each should be compared with like-for-like auction material. Appraisily’s input indicates 438 auction records associated with the artist, but the public artist page was rate-limited during collection and supplied no individual lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices or comparable-lot detail. The source pack therefore supports broad category matching, not a price trend or prediction. A defensible appraisal should verify the artist identity, classify the work correctly, and then examine relevant public auction records and object-level evidence when those records are available.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices and comparable lots when those records are publicly available and can be verified.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5622294
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/147655037/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500172674
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Grey-Smith
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/guy-grey-smith/