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Painter, born in Le Havre, France, who grew up with a family background of art and music. Educated in France and England, he was meant to enter his father’s firm and early experience of business life took him to Liverpool, London and Hamburg, but his enthusiasm for painting determined that he moved to Perugia, Italy, to paint in 1914. World War I interrupted and Maze went to the front with the Royal Scots Greys where he met Winston Churchill with whom he stayed close friends. Churchill wrote a preface to Maze’s 1934 book A Frenchman in Khaki. The several-times-decorated Maze in 1918 rented a studio in Paris, where he became a notable member of the art scene, his immediate neighbours Derain and de Segonzac. Eventually Maze settled in England, at Treyford, Sussex.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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