Caroline de Maistre Walker, London

Collection of the artist;
Sir John Rothenstein, London;
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane (label on previous frame);
Private collection, Sydney – purchased from the above in 2000;
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, May 2009;
Private collection, Melbourne

Note: Sir John Rothenstein, director of the Tate Gallery from 1938 – 1964, was a friend and supporter of de Maistre. By 1960 the Tate held four works, including two still life oil paintings.

Exhibited: Roy de Maistre: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings 1917 – 1960, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, May – June 1960, no. 89.

Reference: See The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Cbus, Melbourne, 2009, p. 81 for a similar composition, ‘Still Life Study in Grey Green’ (also provenance of Sir John Rothenstein, London, until purchased by Joseph Brown for Cbus in 1991).

Collection of Mrs S. Beinl
Private collection, Melbourne
Exhibited:
Society of Artists, 1950
‘Australian Painting – Colonial, Impressionist, Cotemporary’, Adelaide Festival 1962, Perth 1962, Tate Gallery London, 1963, Canada 1963 (illus. in Tate Gallery Catalogue); 1969 – 70).

Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne. Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney. Private collection, Sydney. The Estate of John Fairlie Cuningham, Sydney. Exhibited: Homage to Roy de Maistre: A Memorial Retrospective Exhibition, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 21 April – 7 May 1971; Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney, 20 May – 5 June 1971, cat. 20 (illus. cover). Literature: Laurie Thomas, ‘Homage to de Maistre’, The Australian, 22 May 1971 (illus.). Heather Johnson, Roy De Maistre: The Australian Years 1894-1930, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1988, p. 104, pl. 47 (illus.), 122.