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Title
Carol singers
(1943)
Details
Date
(1943)
Materials used
oil on paperboard
Dimensions
94.0 x 73.8 cm board; 117.0 x 97.0 x 5.3 cm frame :
0 - Whole, 93 x 72.5 cm, SIGHT DIMENSION
Signature & date
Signed l.l. corner, yellow oil "R.de Maistre". Not dated.
Credit
Gift of Patrick White 1974
Location
Not on display
Accession number
43.1974

Shown in 4 exhibitions
Exhibition history
UNESCO Exposition Internationale d'Art Moderne, Musee d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France, 18 Nov 1946–Dec 1946
Roy de Maistre: Retrospective exhibition of Paintings and Drawings 1917-1960, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, May 1960–Jun 1960
Pioneer contemporaries: Roy de Maistre, Grace Cossington Smith, Roland Wakelin, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 23 Nov 1960–02 Dec 1960
Project 14 - Roy de Maistre: 1894-1968 (1976), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Sep 1976–04 Oct 1976
Referenced in 8 publications
Bibliography
Helen Verity Hewitt, Patrick White, painter, manqué: paintings, painters and their influence on his writing, Carlton, 2002, 131.
Heather Johnson, Brought to Light: Australian Art 1850–1965 from the Queensland Art Gallery collection, 'Reality or Religious Fantasy? Roy de Maistre and Herbert Badham', pg. 218-223, Brisbane, 1998, 220.
Heather Johnson, Roy de Maistre: The english years, New South Wales, 1995, 56 (illus.).
Macquarie Galleries, Pioneer contemporaries: Roy de Maistre, Grace Cossington Smith, Roland Wakelin, Sydney, 1960. cat.no. 10; Kindly lent by Mr. Patrick White
Sir John Rothenstein and Bryan Robertson, Roy de Maistre: A retrospective exhibition of paintings and drawings from 1917-1960, London, 1960, 13. cat.no. 54; dated: 1943; Collection of Patrick White, Esq.
Daniel Thomas AM (Curator), Project 14: Roy de Maistre 1894-1968, Sydney, 1976, (illus.). cat.no. 22
Daniel Thomas., The Sydney Morning Herald, 'Painting's influence on literature', Sydney, 14 Sep 1976.
Editor Unknown (Editor), Sotheby's Melbourne: Important Australian Art, 25 & 26 August 2008, Australia, 2008, 153 (colour illus.). NOTE: A variation of the painting in the AGNSW's collection.