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Grand mère

Hilda Rix Nicholas(circa 1914)

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia

Grand mère' was painted by Hilda Rix Nicholas in Étaples, Northern France. Executed in the open air, the artwork depicts an elderly peasant woman in a blossoming garden. Rix Nicholas sets the subject of the painting firmly in the frontal plane of a luminously colourful background, an influence of post-impressionist Paris. Short brushstrokes of thickly applied paint animate the pictorial surface and showcase the artist's draughtsmanship.

Rix Nicholas's works were acquired by the French government, exhibited in the Salon and the Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français, and she was elected an Associate of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.

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  • Title: Grand mère
  • Creator: Hilda Rix Nicholas
  • Date Created: (circa 1914)
  • Location: Étaples-sur-Mer/France
  • Physical Dimensions: 80.9 x 64.1 cm stretcher; 95.7 x 80.0 x 11.0 cm frame
  • Provenance: Anthony Horderns' Fine Art Gallery, pre 1919, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, Purchased by the Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales from ‘Exhibition of drawings and oil paintings by E.H. Rix Nicholas’ held at Anthony Hordern's Fine Art Gallery, Sydney, opened 11.06.1919, cat. no. 25.
  • Type: Painting
  • Rights: Purchased 1919
  • External Link: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/6107
  • Medium: oil on canvas
  • Signature & Date: Signed l.r. corner, blue oil "EHRix [monogram]". Not dated.
  • Object Other Titles: Grand-mère; Grandmere; Grand Mère; Grand mere
  • Artist Country: Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales

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