Roy de Maistre
1894-1968

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE DR JAN ALTMANN, MELBOURNE

Roy de Maistre

1894-1968
PORTRAIT OF FRANCIS BACON (1935)

oil on board
signed 'R de Maistre' lower right
66 X 43.6CM

• Lot Sold $65,000 (Hammer Price)
• $79,300 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Dimitrije Mitrinovic, United Kingdom
Trustees of the New Atlantis Foundation, United Kingdom
Mrs Gladys MacDermot, United Kingdom
By descent
Private Collection, Switzerland
Important Australian Art, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 24 November 2008, lot 71, illustrated
Private Collection, Victoria
Corporate Collection, Melbourne
Dr Jan Altmann, Melbourne

Exhibited

Roy de Maistre: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings 1917-1960, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, May - June 1960, no. 40

Literature

Neville Wallis, 'In the Humanist Tradition', The Observer, London, 15 May 1960, p. 20 (illustrated)
Daniel Farson, The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon, Century, London, 1993, p. 28 (illustrated)
Heather Johnson, Roy de Maistre: The English Years, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995, p. 26