Lot 89

In good condition overall. Minor foxing. Possible brown discolouration line along base, or possibly pigment.
Frame has minor chips and scratches.


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Private collection, Melbourne

"Jocelyn Rickards was an extraordinary woman. Coming from a conservative family, she talked her way out of Ascham and into the Darlinghurst Art School ('East Sydney Tech') at the age of 14. She stayed on for an extra year to hone her skills and became part of an infamous & vital salon called The Merioola Group (named after the house they all shared in Woollahra). She was a leading light in what Robert Hughes referred to as 'The Sydney Charm School' of artists who exhibited at the David Jones and Macquarie Galleries in the late 1940s.
Moving to the UK in 1949, Jocelyn soon found gloomy post-war London in the midst of Britain's most disruptive theatre movement since Shakespeare – the 'Angry Young Men' social realists. Helping out her Merioola colleague Loudon Sainthill with sketches for an unproduced film, Jocelyn landed work in various West End stage productions and succeeded brilliantly in learning on the job and creating a new profession for herself as a costume designer."
(Bob Hill)