DE MAISTRE, Roy (1894-1968)
'Study for Sir Robert Adeane,' 1963.
Signed lower right.
Gouache
27.5x19.5cm

PROVENANCE:
The Fred and Elinor Wrobel Collection, Sydney; Estate Late Elinor Wrobel.

EXHIBITIONS:
Faces in the Crowd: An Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of Elinor and Fred Wrobel, Stanthorpe Art Gallery, Queensland, 2nd - 28th November 1992, then touring to Australian regional galleries.

OTHER NOTES:
Sir Robert Adeane (1905-1979) was an English businessman and art collector.
"Today de Maistre has the creative spirit of a young man, a painter pre-occupied with the animation of forms and colours. He rarely leaves his studio, preferring to work in seclusion. The Portrait of Sir Robert Adean [sic] has beside it, in his studio, a series of six studies extending from a detailed realistic statement (each one gradually discarding everything not relevant to his intentions) to the final version. De Maistre said 'I find one must continually repeat oneself to define the meaning, until the moments of contemplation and the moments of creation fuse together'. Looking at this broadly coloured, sinuously contoured and formally controlled picture I recalled his memorable remark, 'it's often necessary, for instance, to give the spectator an ugly left uppercut'.". Art and Australia, Vol. 2 No. 1 May 1964, p. 42.



Estimate $800-1,500