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).
Memory of a colour pattern, the painting which Guest presented to the National Gallery of Victoria after completing her scholarship, was the first in a contentious series of contemporary scholarship paintings either rejected or withdrawn from exhibition by the National Gallery of Victoria in the early 1930s. Other artists affected by this policy included Constance Stokes and Sam Atyeo. Guest’s painting was hung for only a short period because it 'showed modern influences’, according to the _Herald _ [Melbourne], 17 December 1932, page 4.
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