Roy De Maistre (1894 - 1968)

TRIPTYCH, 1959

oil, gouache, ink and pencil on paper

30.5 x 48.5 cm (triptych - framed overall)

centre panel signed lower right: R. de Maistre
right panel initialled lower right: M

Harold E. Mertz, New York, USA
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, a gift from the above in 1972 (label attached verso)
The Harold E Mertz Collection of Australian Art, Christie’s, Melbourne, 28 June 2000, lot 99
Private collection, Hong Kong
Christie’s, Melbourne, 22 August 2005, lot 155
John Barnes, Melbourne, acquired from the above
The Estate of John Barnes, Melbourne

A retrospective exhibition of paintings and drawings 1917 – 1960, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK, May – June 1960, cat. 130
On loan to the Herbert Museum, Coventry, London, UK (label attached verso)
The Mertz Collection of Contemporary Australian Painting, National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 10 – 26 March 1966, cat. 23 (label attached verso)
The Australian Painters 1964-1966: Contemporary Australian Painting from the Mertz Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, USA, 10 March – 16 April 1967, cat. 90
The Australian Painters: 1964 – 1966, from the Mertz Collection, The American Federation of Arts, New York, USA, May 1967 – December 1968, cat. 20 (label attached verso)

Luck, R., The Australian Painters 1964 – 1966: Contemporary Australian Painting from the Mertz Collection, The Griffin Press, Adelaide, 1967, cat. 90, pp. 29, 72 (illus.)

Crucifixion, c.1957, tempera and gold leaf on wood panel, 28.0 x 21.0 cm, in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney