Drawing No.17, Feb 1975

Sylvia Guirey, nee Princess Sylvia Obolensky, was born in Austria to an American heiress mother, Ave Astor, who was married to an exiled Russian prince. She was educated in New York and began working with stage designer Eugene Berman in the 1950s. Her work was largely abstract though it also contained representational imagery and was noted for its use of vibrant colours. Guirey exhibited at the John Moores Exhibition in Liverpool in 1969-70.