Roy De Maistre, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Roy De Maistre

Australian artist

Date of Birth: 27-Mar-1894

Place of Birth: Bowral, New South Wales, Australia

Date of Death: 01-Mar-1968

Profession: painter

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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.