Roy de Maistre
(Australia, England 27 Mar 1894–01 Mar 1968)
- Title
- Woman with parasol at Palm Beach
- Year
- 1927
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on plywood
- Dimensions
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32.0 x 40.8cm board; 44.9 x 52.6 x 5.0cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.l. corner, pencil "R de M (illeg.) 1927". Signed upper c. verso, pencil "... R de M.".
- Credit
- Bequest of Mervyn Horton 1983
- Accession number
- 49.1985
- Copyright
- © Caroline de Mestre Walker
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Like Wakelin, de Maistre recanted the incipient abstraction of his colour harmonies in favour of a blander, more saleable, variation of modernism. Habitually broke, neither of them could afford the luxury of avant-gardism for long. This image is a slice of middle-class life destined for return to it. De Maistre understood this, but it did not blight his authorship of some of the lushest landscape and genre paintings of the 1920s. Never uninteresting, he is no less than compelling in this solar homage to Sydney's Palm Beach. Having expatriated himself to England in 1930, de Maistre honed an adapt-ably academic cubism that influenced his admirer, the young Francis Bacon.
Art Gallery Handbook 1999
- Bibliography (5)
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Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Parallel visions: works from the Australian collection, Domain, 2002, 48 (colour illus.), 143, 147.
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Domain, 2000, 110 (colour illus.), 301.
Bruce James (Australia) (Author), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Director), Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, Domain, 1999, 137 (colour illus.).
Katherine Roberts (Australia) (Author), Heather Johnson (Author), Celebrating Paradise - The artist and the Northern Beaches: 1890 to 2000, Manly, 1999, 7, 8 (colour illus.), 20.
Ewen McDonald (Australia) (Editor), The Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Sydney, 1994, 34 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (5)
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Tribute to Mervyn Horton, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 10 Oct 1983–14 Nov 1984.
Celebrating Paradise - The artist and the Northern Beaches: 1890-2000, Manly Regional Art Gallery and Museum, 10 Dec 1999–30 Jan 2000.
Parallel Visions: Twenty-two artists from the Australian collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 22 Feb 2002–May 2003.
Australian modern masterpieces from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 05 Oct 2011–27 Nov 2011.
Australian modern masterpieces from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, 10 Dec 2011–04 Mar 2012.
