
Penny Day
Head of UK and Ireland
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Roy de Maistre originally moved to Paris from Australia upon obtaining a scholarship in 1923. De Maistre would exhibit throughout his career in France and also London where he lived and held his first one man show at the studio of friend Francis Bacon in 1929. Further exhibitions would follow at the Mayor Gallery, Hanover Gallery and a retrospective at the acclaimed Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1960.
Throughout his career, de Maistre was particuarly focused on the nature of colour in art, even creating a disc to enable harmonious colour schemes to be chosen from a scale using a standard principle. As in the case with Paris Studio his work shows a strong sense of design and debt to the Cubist movement which he fully absorbed during his time in the French capital.