Paul Maze Exhibition

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Paul Maze (1887 – 1979) A collection of oils and watercolours of a close friend and trustee of the artist

SELLING EXHIBITION Wednesday 5th June – Friday 14th June Monday to Friday 10am – 6pm 15 Langton Street, Chelsea, London SW10 0JL | E: james@jhba.co.uk | T: +44 (0)20 7 352 0015

www.jamesharveybritishart.com Works from this exhibition are available for purchase from receipt of this invitation.

All sizes are of the picture, not the frame.

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Paul Maze (1887 – 1979) Often called the last of the Impressionists, Maze had a reputation as one of the great artists of his generation. He was born in 1887 into an artistic circle in Le Havre, where the young Maze learned the rudiments of painting from family friends that included Renoir, Monet, Dufy and Pissarro. His father, a tea merchant, sent him to school in Southampton where he began a life long love affair with all things English. On the outbreak of War, the sight of the Scots Greys disembarking at Le Havre inspired him to sign up immediately as their interpreter. A brave and highly decorated soldier, Maze was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal and Military Medal and bar; he sketched continually throughout the Great War, his pencil and paper never far from his bayonet.

During the First World War, Maze met Winston Churchill in the trenches and their shared love of painting led to a lifelong friendship.

Maze became Churchill’s artistic mentor, encouraging him to develop his drawing and painting techniques. In a 1989 speech by Churchill’s daughter, Lady Soames, she said, “The famous French artist Paul Maze was a painting companion. The ‘Cher Maître’, as we all came to call this charming man, remained a regular visitor to Chartwell for many years”.

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Never far from the original principles of Impressionism Maze believed that “painters are born, not made” and it was fitting that a man who truly believed that “the greatest teacher is Nature” should die, at 92, pastel in hand looking across at his favourite view of the Sussex Downs.

Maze immortalized the English Season in art: Goodwood, Trooping the Colour, Henley Eights and Cowes Week where he was a familiar figure on the Squadron steps shrouded in tweed coats and a large hat, whatever the weather.

Maze exhibited at a number of major commercial art galleries in London, Paris and America. In 1952 Maze held his first one-man exhibition at the Wildenstein Gallery in New York and that same year he went on to record the funeral of HM King George VI. He was selected as the Official Painter of Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation the following year. In London he had a major retrospective ‘Paul Maze & The Guards’ at Wildenstein in 1973.

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Guards at Buckingham Palace

Guards on Parade Wearing Capes

Signed, Oil on Board, 60 x 73 cm

Signed, Pastel, 55 x 74 cm

Exhibition label verso, Exhibited Wildenstein, May / June 1973, No. 6

Exhibition label verso, Exhibited Wildenstein, May / June 1973, No. 51

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Buckingham Palace, Changing the Guard Signed, Oil on Board 37 x 74 cm Exhibition label verso, Exhibited Wildenstein, May / June 1973, No. 9

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The Parade Ground Signed, Oil on Board, 22 x 68 cm

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Cowes

Cowes

Signed, inscribed and dated 1950

Signed lower left, Watercolour, 55 x 78 cm

Watercolour and Pencil with Artist’s notes, 32 x 49 cm

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Sailing off the Isle of Wight

The Committee Boat off the Squadron Line

Signed, Watercolour, 20 x 30 cm

Signed, Watercolour, 19 x 30 cm

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Shipping off Southampton

Yachting through the window, Cowes

A preparatory sketch squared for transfer.

Signed, Watercolour and Pencil, 20 x 32 cm

Watercolour. 10 x 20 cm

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Boats on their moorings

Poppies

Signed, Watercolour, 19 x 32 cm

Signed and inscribed lower right, Mixed media, 55 x 75 cm

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The Garden Gate, Winter

Sussex landscape

Signed and dated ’71, Pastel, 29.5 x 21.5 ins

Signed, Pastel, 22 x 30 ins

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Still life of flowers

Pony and Trap, Coming and Going

Signed and inscribed, Pastel, 36 x 55cm

Both signed, Watercolour and Pen, Each 20 x 11 cm

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Still life of flowers in jug

Jessie at her dressing table

Signed, Pastel, 27 x 19 cm

Signed, Pastel, 24 x 24 cm

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For more information, please contact:

15 Langton Street, Chelsea, London SW10 0JL E: james@jhba.co.uk W: jamesharveybritishart.com T: +44 (0)20 7 352 0015

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