In Picardy
(c. 1914)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
61.2 × 51.1 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1918
© Bronwyn Wright
Gallery location
Gallery 7
Level 2, NGV Australia
About this work
Hilda Rix Nicholas was among the most successful women artists living and studying in France in the early twentieth century. Following the death of her father and her time studying at the National Gallery School from 1902 to 1905, Rix Nicholas travelled to Europe with her mother, Elizabeth, and sister, Elsie, settling in Paris in late 1907. There she enrolled at the Académie Delécluse and the Académie Colarossi – institutions particularly supportive of women artists. In 1910 Rix Nicholas began spending summers in Étaples on the Picardy coast where there was a large colony of expatriate American, English and Australian artists.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Étaples, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Inscription
inscribed in black paint l.l.: EH (monogram) Rix
Accession Number
888-3
Department
Australian Painting
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Subjects (general)
Daily Life Human Figures Portraits
Subjects (specific)
elderly folk costume France (nation) gardens (open spaces) three-quarter-length figures women (female humans)
Movements
Modernism