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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW SOUTH WALES

HILDA RIX NICHOLAS
1884-1961

Colonel Barnes (circa 1907)

Estimate $40,000 – $60,000

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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW SOUTH WALES

HILDA RIX NICHOLAS

1884-1961
Colonel Barnes (circa 1907)

oil on canvas
signed 'E H Rix Nicholas' lower left
80 x 65 cm

  • Lot Sold $40,000 (Hammer Price)
  • $49,091 (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. 28, 'Colonel Barns (Retired Anglo-Indian Officer)'
Exhibition of Drawings and Oil Paintings by E. H. Rix Nicholas, Anthony Hordern's Fine Art Gallery, Sydney, 11 June 1919, no. 29, 'Colonel Barnes (Retired Anglo-Indian Officer)', 100 gns
Hilda Rix Nicholas: Her Life and Art, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 1-26 July 2000, no. 14, 'Colonel Barnes, Retired Anglo-Indian Officer c. 1911' (label verso)
Hilda Rix Nicholas: Her Life and Art, Savill Galleries, Sydney, 10-31 August 2000
Paris to Monaro: Pleasures from the Studio of Hilda Rix Nicholas, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 31 May - 11 August 2013

Literature

Mrs. Hilda Rix Nicholas's Exhibition', Punch, Melbourne, 21 November 1918, p. 37
Sarah Engledow, Paris to Monaro: Pleasures from the Studio of Hilda Rix Nicholas, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 2015, p. 99 (illustrated)

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Important Australian Art

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