Lot 63

Melbourne Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne (label verso)
Private collection, Melbourne

After spending her early years overseas, Hilda Rix moved back to Australia permenently, setlling in rural NSW with her husband and child. Distance from the capital cities, along with gender barriers in the art world and the challenge of balancing roles of wife, mother and artist, made it difficult for Hilda to resume a career in Australia. Neither conservative nor modernist in an avant-garde sense, she fell out of favour with the contemporary art scene in the 1930s and 40s. More recently, the brilliance of her work and her remarkable achievements overseas have been rightfully acknowledged.