Paul Lucien Maze (French, 1887 - 1979)
 
Down the River 
 
Signed lower left, pastel on buff paper. 
 
36.5cm x 23.5cm (14.5in x 9.25in)
 
Good condition overall.
 
Paul Maze was a celebrated Anglo-French painter often known as the 'Last of the Post-Impressionists'. A gifted artist who exhibited widely in London, Paris and New York, Maze developed a friendship with Winston Churchill during the First World War. Churchill wrote in the forward to Maze's first exhibition in New York in 1939, '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 a vivid and powerful interpreter to us of the forces and harmony of Nature". Maze died age 92 in 1979 and his paintings are held in The Tate, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and many other private and public collections worldwide.