Roy de Maistre
(Australia, England 27 Mar 1894–01 Mar 1968)
Woman with parasol at Palm Beach
- 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
- Year
- 1927
- Media
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on plywood
- Dimensions
- 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
