Lot 32

Dr J. P. Rasmussen OAM
Thence by descent
Private collection, New South Wales

Hilda Rix Nicholas 1884-1961, Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 20 September - 27 October 1990, cat. no. 18
A Private Collection: A Century of Australian Heritage, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 20 June - 21 July 1991, cat. no. 61
Capturing the Orient Hilda Rix Nicholas and Ethel Carrick in the East, Waverley City Gallery, Melbourne, 16 July - 29 August 1993, then toured to: Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, 16 September - 17 October 1993; Gold Coast Art Centre, Surfers Paradise, 27 October - 28 November 1993; Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart, 5 December 1993 - 30 January 1994; SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 3 February - 6 March 1994
UNE Australienne: Hilda Rix Nicholas in Paris, Tangier and Sydney - Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney 3 May - 13 July 2014 (p. 36, exhibition catalogue)

Pigot, J., Hilda Rix Nicholas: Her Life and Art, The Miegunyah Press, 2000, pp. 20, 37, pl. 3 (illus.)
"Her coloured drawings have a similar sense of spontaneity and liveliness. Rix had an intuitive understanding of coloured pastels and their potential. She favoured contrasting tones of warm and cool colours; lavender blue was often juxtaposed against canary yellow and orange. In works such as 'In the Market Place, Etaples', the strength of her draughtsmanship and the vibrancy of her colour animates the scene, giving it a pictorial energy which set her work apart from that of other artists working in Etaples." (p. 20)