The Kenneth and Betty Lay Collection

Kenneth and Betty Lay were lifetime appreciators of art and would be excited to know that their collection would be cherished by a new generation of collectors.

August 7 - 9, 2023

The Venue at Portwalk Place 22 Portwalk Place

Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03801

Founded in 1984, and built on a foundation of trust and customer satisfaction, Guyette and Deeter is an auction house proud to represent the finest of North American decoys and sporting art, fine sporting arms, American folk sculpture, and now fine American art. Presented with the opportunity to represent the Lay Family collection of American paintings, we sought the knowledge and expertise of Mehves Lelic, our fine art consultant and essayist. We have approached this opportunity the way we always have when entrusted with the marketing of fine art objects, transparency and communication are imperative, research and the presentation of as much information as possible is paramount, and providing a fun and exciting live auction event is a must.

1210 S Talbot St, Unit A St. Michaels, Md 21663 Tel: 440-610-1768 jdeeter@guyetteanddeeter.com

Lacey & Zac Cote

PO Box 347 Freeport, ME 04032 Tel: 207-321-8091 zcote@guyetteanddeeter.com

Mehves Lelic is a curator, writer and artist based on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago and an MFA from Bard College, and serves as Curator at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD, where she has curated over 20 exhibitions, including Mary Cassatt: Labor and Leisure; Miro in New York, 1947: Miro, Hayter and Atelier 17; Norma Morgan: Enchanted World; A More Abundant Life: Works Progress Administration Works from the Permanent Collection; In Praise of Shadows: Jun’ichiro

Tanizaki and Modern and Contemporary Art; and Fickle Mirror: Dialogues in Self-Portraiture. She has been awarded the Faith Flanagan Fellowship, the Turkish Cultural Foundation Cultural Exchange Fellowship, and the Association of Art Museum Curators Conference Fellowship.