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Lionel Maurice de Sausmarez (–) Oil on canvas....
Lionel Maurice de Sausmarez (–).
Maurice de Sausmarez
British artist and art educator (–)
Maurice de Sausmarez (20 October – 28 October ) was an artist, writer and art educator. He played an important role in the establishment of the University of Leeds Department of Fine Art[1] and was Principal of the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting from until the end of his life.[2] His influential book Basic Design: The Dynamics of Visual Form () reached a wide international audience and remains in print today.[3]
Early life
Born Lionel Maurice de Sausmarez on 20 October in Sydney, Australia, de Sausmarez was the youngest of two children born to British parents Clarence Montgomery 'Monty' de Sausmarez, a marine engineer in the Merchant Service, and Jessie Rose Macdonald (née Bamford), a piano teacher and widow of the explorer G.A.
Macdonald.[4] In the family moved to Grenada, West Indies. In de Sausmarez's father Monty disappeared during his daily swim and was presume