Roy de Maistre 1894-1968
Roy de Maistre 1894-1968Estimate $60,000 – $80,000
- Lot Sold $75,000 (Hammer Price)
- $90,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
LA FOLIE 1946-1947
oil on board
signed, dated and inscribed '"La Folie" / R. de Maistre / 1946-7' lower right
80.5 X 61.5CM
PROVENANCE
The Estate of Roy de Maistre, London
Private Collection, United Kingdom
By descent
Private Collection, United Kingdom
EXHIBITED
Roy de Maistre: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings 1917-1960, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, May - June 1960, no.58, ‘1944’, illustrated
LITERATURE
Heather Johnson, Roy de Maistre: The English Years 1930-1968, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995, cover (illustrated), pp. 36, 37 (illustrated)
Helen Verity Hewitt, Patrick White: Painter Manqué: Paintings, Painters and Their Influence on His Writing, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2002, p. 12
including: A. C. Cooper, Camilla Keogh, photograph used as the basis for Roy de Maistre, Figure in a Garden (The Aunt) (1945) and La Folie (1946-1947), gridded up by de Maistre