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Captain Grey Beard - Guillo Perez 3
Captain Grey Beard - Guillo Perez 3
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Original · Oil on Canvas · 48 × 72 in · Stretched and unframed
“The title 'Captain Grey Beard' captures the authority and experience of these captains, as well as the rugged and determined spirit of the men who sailed these ships.”
— Guillo Pérez 3
There is a particular kind of courage that history records in ships. Not the courage of the single soldier but the courage of the fleet: men bound together by discipline, purpose, and the knowledge that the sea does not negotiate.
Captain Grey Beard puts you inside that moment. The canvas is dense with detail — battleships in formation, turbulent water beneath them, plumes of smoke rising from cannon fire, dramatic skies pressing down on the entire scene. Guillo Pérez 3 has not painted a historical illustration. He has painted the feeling of it: the scale, the noise, the weight of it. The grey and blue palette is not decorative; it is the atmosphere of war at sea, where the sky and the water and the smoke all bleed into each other and what remains is pure human determination.
This is one of Guillo’s most technically ambitious works. The canvas is 48 by 72 inches and the composition fills every inch of it. There is no empty space, no rest. The painting insists on its own urgency the way great historical painting always has: by making the past feel present and the human stakes feel immediate.
This work extends Guillo’s engagement with figures who exist at the boundary of human capability — the mythological captains of Poseidon and Gilgamesh, now brought into the register of historical memory. Different subject, same question: what does it mean to hold authority in conditions that dwarf individual human scale?
Details
- Artist: Guillo Pérez 3
- Title: Captain Grey Beard
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 48 × 72 in (121.9 × 182.9 cm)
- Year: 2022
- Presentation: Stretched and unframed
- Edition: One of a kind original
- Authenticity: Signed by the artist; Certificate of Authenticity included
- Condition: Excellent
- Ships from: Tampa, Florida — worldwide shipping available
Collector’s Note
Captain Grey Beard is a commanding work that earns its scale and its price point. At 48 by 72 inches it is one of the largest canvases in Guillo Pérez 3’s body of work, and the composition fills every inch with intention. For collectors drawn to historical and narrative subjects in contemporary painting, this is a significant acquisition. Its 2022 date places it in a formative period of the artist’s engagement with large-format dramatic work. Paired with Poseidon, the two pieces form a powerful dialogue around human presence in the face of elemental forces.
Acquisition
This work is available for purchase through Marcolina’s Fine Arts Gallery with worldwide shipping, full insurance, and professional art packaging. Payment plans are available. Private in-person viewings are available by appointment in Tampa, Florida. Virtual viewings are available for collectors anywhere in the world. Contact us to inquire.
About the Artist
Guillo Pérez 3 is a Dominican-American painter born in Santo Domingo in 1981 and raised in Queens, New York. He is the grandson of the celebrated master painter Guillo Pérez, one of the Dominican Republic’s most respected artistic figures, and the son of painter Willy Pérez. He carries a multigenerational lineage of serious painterly practice while forging a voice that is unmistakably his own.
Working from Tampa, Florida, Guillo has developed a personal artistic philosophy he calls Bauhaus Budō: a synthesis of Bauhaus design principles and the meditative rigor of martial arts. Geometry as structure. Intuition as movement. Color as emotional force. His canvases explore mythology, religion, the human psyche, and systems of belief, drawing on world traditions while remaining entirely contemporary in execution.
He has founded galleries in Miami and New York, created community programs for emerging artists, and co-founded Marcolina’s Fine Arts Gallery in Tampa. The New York Times recognized him as a “Star Maker.” His work has been exhibited across the United States and internationally.
