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Roy De Maistre
Born
Leroy Livingstone de Mestre

(1894-03-27)27 March 1894
Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
Died1 March 1968(1968-03-01) (aged 73)
London, England
Other namesLeRoy Leveson Laurent Joseph de Maistre, Roi de Mestre, LeRoi Levistan de Mestre
Known forPainting
MovementAbstraction, Cubism
AwardsOrder of the British Empire (1962)

Roy De Maistre CBE (27 March 1894 – 1 March 1968) was an Australian artist of international fame. He is renowned in Australian art for his early experimentation with "colour-music", and is recognised as the first Australian artist to use pure abstraction. His later works were painted in a figurative style generally influenced by Cubism. His Stations of the Cross series hangs in Westminster Cathedral and works of his are hung in the Tate Gallery, London and in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

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