1. Sylvia Guirey was an heiress, artist and art patron.
10 Facts About Sylvia Guirey
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Sylvia Guirey's mother was Ava Alice Muriel Astor and her father was Raimund von Hofmannsthal.
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Sylvia Guirey had been educated at home and then went onto the Brearley School.
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Sylvia Guirey worked in with Berman on the new production for the Metropolitan Opera of Don Giovanni.
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Sylvia Guirey began to buy pop-art pieces and at the same time her home at Elm Place became popular with artists and dealers.
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Sylvia Guirey took a studio on her own account and created enough paintings to start exhibiting.
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Sylvia Guirey's work was at the Sao Paolo Biennale in 1973, and three years later she was in the Betty Parsons Gallery.
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Sylvia Guirey continued to exhibit in the US and the UK at the Hester van Royen Gallery and the Benjamin Rhodes Gallery.
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Sylvia Guirey married again to Prince Azamat Kadir Sultan Guirey, a son of Vaguide Sheretlock Guirey and Prince Kadir Guirey, a descendant of the Tatar khans who ruled Crimea before the Czars, in 1957.
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Prince Azamat later married Frederica Ann "Bobo" Sigrist, daughter of Fred Sigrist Sylvia Guirey died in Fulham in England in 1997.