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Roy de Maistre (1894-1968)
Biography
1894 Born in Maryvale, Bowral
1913 Moved to Sydney; Studied at the Royal Art Society, under Dattilio Rubbo; Studied at the Julian Ashton Art School
1916 Served in the First Australian Imperial Force; worked as a medical orderly, Australian Army Medical Corps
1917 Met Dr Charles Gordon Moffit, Kenmore Hospital Goulburn, with whom he was to work devising a 'colour treatment' for shell-shocked soldiers
1919 Worked with Adrian Verbrugghen and then Roland Wakelin to devise a 'colour/music' theory
1922 First painting purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, ‘Still Life’
1923-25 Travelled to Europe on Society of Artists Travelling Scholarship; visited England, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Holland
1924 Patented the 'De Maistre Colour Harmonising Chart', produced and marketed by Grace Bros, Sydney
1926-30 Taught painting to private pupils
1928-29 Worked with Harold Cazneaux to produce a series of 'new idea portraits'; 'Fair Women and Modern Design' for Home magazine
1930 Left Australia to live permanently in England
1931-32 Visits to Villa Arrantegra, St Jean de Luz
1932-34 Visits to Compiegne
1936 Met Patrick White
1940 Started work for the French Section, Joint War Organization of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John, London
1942 Posted to Foreign Relations Department, Red Cross
1947 Painting 'Figure in a Garden (The Aunt)' used as the cover for the first edition of Patrick White's 'The Aunt's Story'
1951 Confirmed in Roman Catholic faith
1954 Became a member of the London Group
1954 Commenced painting 'Stations of the Cross' for Westminster Cathedral
1968 Died in London
Selected Exhibitions
1916, 18, 20 Society of Artists, Sydney
1917, 18 Royal Art Society, Sydney
1919 'Colour in Art', Gayfield Shaw’s New Art Salon, Sydney, with Roland Wakelin
1922, 26, 27 Society of Artists, Sydney
1923 Exhibition of works of Australian artists, London
1924 Societe Nationale des Beaux Artes, Paris
1926, 28 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1926, 27, 34 Contemporary Group, Sydney
1928, 29 Society of Artists, Sydney
1929 The Burdekin House Exhibition, Sydney
1930 Beaux Arts Gallery, London
1933 'Sydney Art School Retrospective 1890-1933', Sydney
1934 'Roy de Maistre', Mayor Gallery, London
1946 Unesco exhibition, Musee d’Art Medern, Paris
1952, 56 Contemporary Art Society, Tate Gallery, London
1954-64 London Group, London
1955-67 Royal Academy, London
1960 'Roy de Maistre: Retrospective exhibition of Paintings and Drawings 1917-1960', Whitechapel Gallery, London
1961 'Recent Australian Painting', Whitechapel Gallery, London
1971 'Homage to de Maistre: A Memorial Retrospective Exhibition', Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
1976 'Roy de Maistre 1894-1968', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Awards
1923 Society of Artists Travelling Scholarship
Collections
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Numerous regional galleries throughout Australia
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Tate Gallery, London
Numerous other public, corporate and private collections in Australia, New Zealand, UK, USA and South Africa
Sources:
Heather Johnson, 'Roy de Maistre: The Australian Years 1894-1930', Craftsman House, Roseville, NSW, 1988
Heather Johnson, 'Roy De Maistre: The English Years 1930-1968', Craftsman House, Roseville, NSW, 1995
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