HILDA RIX NICHOLAS
1884-1961

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW SOUTH WALES

HILDA RIX NICHOLAS

1884-1961
Purple and Blue [Portrait of Elsie Rix] (circa 1911-1913)

oil on canvas
81 x 60 cm

• Lot Sold $75,000 (Hammer Price)
• $91,500 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Hilda Rix Nicholas, New South Wales
Private Collection, New South Wales, by descent from the above

Exhibited

Exhibition of Pictures by E. Hilda Rix Nicholas, The Guild Hall, Melbourne, 12-26 November 1918, no. 30, 'Purple and Blue - Portrait'
Exhibition of Drawings and Oil Paintings by E. H. Rix Nicholas, Anthony Hordern's Fine Art Gallery, Sydney, 11 June 1919, no. 31, 'Purple and Blue - Portrait'
Hilda Rix Nicholas, Robyn Brady and Bruce James at Caspian Gallery, Sydney, 23 July - 6 August 1991, no. 3, 'Purple and Blue 1914', NFS
Une Australienne: Hilda Rix Nicholas in Paris, Tangier & Sydney, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, 3 May - 13 July 2014, illustrated

Literature

Work of Mrs Rix Nicholas. Paintings of Distinction', The Argus, Melbourne, 12 November 1918, p. 7
'Art at Horderns'. Mrs. Nicholas's Paintings', The Sun, Sydney, 11 June 1919, p. 7
Jeanette Hoorn, Hilda Rix Nicholas and Elsie Rix's Moroccan Idyll: Art and Orientalism, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University, Melbourne, 2013, p. 190 (illustrated)
Jeanette Hoorn, Julie Petersen and Elena Taylor, Une Australienne: Hilda Rix Nicholas in Paris, Tangier & Sydney, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, 2014, pp. 20 (illustrated), 74