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Australian artist

Roy De MaistreCBE (27 March &#;&#; 1 March ) 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.

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(Freud, grandson of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, was born in Berlin in and came to Britain in , and studied at a number of art schools during the.

Roy de Maistre was fundamentally an intellectual painter.

Roy de Maistre was an Australian artist of international fame.

Very little is said about the Australian artist Roy de Maistre in scholarship on Francis Bacon, apart from the fact that he provided guidance about painting.

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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.

Early life

Roy went by the name of Leroy Leveson Laurent Joseph De Maistre, but had been born as Leroy Livingstone de Mestre at Bowral, New South Wales on 27 March into a home of high social standing in the then Colony of New South Wales.

He was the youngest son of Etienne Livingstone de Mestre (–), the thoroughbredracehorse trainer of the first two Melbourne Cup winners; and the grandson of Prosper de Mestre (–) a prominent Sydney busi