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Paul Maze'Children on the Beach, Fisher Island USA' Oil painting on board
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Paul Lucien Maze
Oil on Board
6.5 x 23.5" (16.25 x 58.75cm)
12.5 x 29.5 (31.25 x 73.75cm)
Provenance: Exhibited Brown and Derby , Cork Street
21 May 1887 – 17 September 1979
Paul Lucien Maze DCM MM was an Anglo-French painter often known as "The last of the Post Impressionists" and was one of the great artists of his generation. The subjects for his paintings include French maritime scenes, busy New York City scenes and the English countryside in a variety of mediums including oils, watercolours and pastels. Maze is noted for his quintessentially English themes such as regattas, sporting events and ceremonial celebrations such as Goodwood racing, Henley Regatta, Trooping the Colour and yachting at Cowes.
Maze was born in Le Havre whose father was a thriving tea merchant and art collector whose circle of artist friends included Claude Monet, Raoul Dufy, Camille Pissarro and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Maze learnt the basics of painting from Pissarro and as a young boy he sketched on the beach with Dufy.
Aged fourteen, Maze was sent to school in Southampton and it was during his time there that he began a life-long affair with all things English. When war broke out in 1914 Maze joined the Royal Scots Greys initially as an interpreter and was later transferred to the British 5th Army Headquarters’ staff where he was a liaison officer and artist. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal and Military Medal with bar as well as the French Croix de Guerre and later on the Legion d’honneur.
He detailed his experiences of the action that he had seen on the Western Front in his book, A Frenchman in Khaki (1934). The foreword for which was written by his good friend Churchill.
After the end of the First World War, Maze immersed himself in the Parisian art scene and his friends included André Derain, André Dunoyer de Segonzac, Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard. Vuillard had a great impact on Maze and encouraged him to use pastels which he felt best suited the style, personality and freshness in his work. Although he still used oils and watercolours, pastel became his preferred medium and it was this talent and skill that led him to global recognition.
Maze met Winston Churchill in the trenches during the First World War and their shared love of painting led to a life-long friendship. Maze became Churchill's artist mentor and encouraged him to develop his drawing and painting techniques.
Maze married Margaret Nelson, the widow of a wartime friend, Captain Thomas Nelson, in 1921 and they moved to London. Here he painted many scenes of London from pomp and pageantry to the fogs and dismal back streets and he exhibited in many major art galleries in London, America and Paris. In 1939, Maze had his first New York City exhibition and in the foreword to the catalogue Winston Churchill wrote: 'His great knowledge of painting and draughtsmanship have enabled him to perfect his remarkable gift. With the fewest of strokes, he can create an impression at once true and beautiful. Here is no toiling seeker after preconceived effects, but vivid and powerful interpreter to us of the forces and harmony of Nature'.
He divorced in 1950 and married Jessie Lawrie and moved to Mill Cottage, Treyford in West Sussex. In 1952 Maze held his first one-man exhibition at the Wildenstein Gallery in New York and in the same year he went on to record the funeral of His Majesty King George VI. The following year he was selected as the Official Painter of Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation.
Maze died at his home in West Sussex, overlooking his beloved South Downs with a pastel in his hand at the age of 92.
- Creator:Paul Maze (1887 - 1979, British)
- Dimensions:Height: 12.5 in (31.75 cm)Width: 29.5 in (74.93 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Gallery Location:St. Albans, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2469214189842
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