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5 Reasons To Be A Roy – Not an Awry De Maistre Fan

Posted on March 5, 2016 by maryannadair

Leroy Leveson Laurent Joseph “Roy” De Maistre was born Leroy Livingstone de Mestre in Bowral, New South Wales, Australia on 27th March 1894 into a home of high social standing. He was educated by tutors and governesses at the family … Continue reading →

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Grace’s Home Through the Looking Glass

Posted on January 1, 2016 by maryannadair

Grace Cossington Smith Door Into the Garden, 1959. Oil on composition board. – Bendigo Art Gallery. Australian artist and pioneer of modernist painting in Australia, Grace Cossington Smith was born Grace Smith, on 20 April 1892 in Neutral Bay, Sydney. … Continue reading →

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Two great compositions by Smith and Sculthorpe

Posted on August 19, 2015 by maryannadair

This 1982 depiction of Peter Sculthorpe was painted by the Archibald Prize winning-artist for portraiture, Eric John Smith. Born in 1919 and raised in Brunswick, Melbourne; at the age of 17, Smith undertook a commercial art course at the Brunswick … Continue reading →

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There is ‘Still Life’ in Karlis Mednis

Posted on November 15, 2013 by maryannadair

Karlis Mednis is not so well known in the international art arena, but I find his work vibrant and energetic. Karlis was born in Russia in 1910, and studied at the Latvian Riga School of Art, before he emigrated to Australia … Continue reading →

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