Roy De Maistre
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Roy de Maistre (1894 - 1968) was an Australian artist.
Born at Maryvale, near Bowral, New South Wales, de Maistre grew up in studied at the Royal Art Society under Dattilo Rubbo and at the Julian Ashton Art School. He developed an interest in 'colour-music,' the relationship of colour harmony to musical harmony, and in 1919 held a joint exhibition with Roland Wakelin titled 'Colour in Art' to expound his theories. Influenced by earlier exponents of colour-music in Europe and America, this exhibition has since been identified as the earliest experiment in pure abstractionism in Australia, but de Maistre soon turned to a more recognisably figurative style, influenced by Cubism. In 1930 he moved permanently to England, where he formed an important friendship with novelist Patrick White.
