Painted in 1954 from a sketch made at Compiègne in 1933, it is one of four versions based on the same design: one, dated 1944, was formerly in the E. C. Gregory collection; two others, dated 1934 and 1955, belong to the artist. The artist wrote (21 April 1955): ‘I frequently return to sketches and notes or “things remembered” and paint one or many different versions of subjects that have their origins in the past’.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
Still Life: Fruit
1954, Roy De Maistre
Details
Artist Roy De Maistre 1894–1968
Medium Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions support: 774 x 545 mm
Collection Tate Gallery London
Acquisition Presented by Eric Hall 1954
Reference N06225
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