THROUGH THE GUM TREES, TOONGABBIE, c.1920

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
4 May 2016
22

HILDA RIX NICHOLAS

(1884 – 1961)
THROUGH THE GUM TREES, TOONGABBIE, c.1920

oil on canvas

65.0 x 81.0 cm

signed lower right: EH Rix Nicholas
partial label attached to stretcher frame verso: Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris
label attached to stretcher frame verso: Nicholson Institute, Leek, Staffordshire

Estimate: 
$30,000 – 40,000
Sold for $109,800 (inc. BP) in Auction 42 - 4 May 2016, Melbourne
Provenance

Macquarie Galleries, Sydney (labels attached verso)
Private collection, New South Wales

Exhibited

Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by E. Hilda Rix Nicholas, The Fine Art Society’s Gallery, Melbourne, 10 – 24 August 1922, cat. 6 (as ‘Through the Gum Trees’)
Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by E. Hilda Rix Nicholas, Anthony Horderns’ Fine Art Gallery, Sydney, opened 1 August 1923, cat. 8 (as ‘Through the Gum Trees’)
Hilda Rix Nicholas, Galérie Georges Petit, Paris, 16 – 30 January 1925, cat. 24 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)
Hilda Rix Nicholas: Australian Life and Landscape, Beaux Arts Gallery, London, 8 – 29 October 1925, cat. 10
then touring throughout England between 1926 – 1928 at:
Hull Art Gallery; Sunderland Public Art Gallery; County Borough of Bootle; Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool; Central Museum, Northampton; Warrington Municipal Museum and Art Gallery; Folkestone Municipal Art Gallery; Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, Derby Museum and Art Gallery; Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead; Nicholson Institute, Urban District of Leek.
Hilda Rix Nicholas: The Man for the Job, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 23 January – 5 April, 2010
Une Australienne, Hilda Rix Nicholas in Paris, Tangier & Sydney, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, 3 May – 13 July, 2014

Literature

Pigot, J., Hilda Rix Nicholas: Her Life and Art, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2000, pp. 44, 67, pl. 17 (illus.)
Cooper-Lavery, T., Hilda Rix Nicholas: The Man for the Job, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 2010, p. 25 (illus.)
Une Australienne, Hilda Rix Nicholas in Paris, Tangier & Sydney, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, 2014, pp. 52, 77 (illus. p. 53)