Defiance
(c. 1914)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 85.0 × 64.5 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Étaples, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
- Inscription
- inscribed in mauve paint l.l.: EHR (monogram) ix
- Accession Number
- 2012.124
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Warren Clark Bequest, 2012
© Bronwyn Wright
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Hilda Rix Nicholas was one of the most successful Australian artists who lived and studied in France in the early years of the twentieth century. From 1902 to 1905 she attended drawing classes at the National Gallery School, before travelling to Europe alongside her mother and sister following the death of her father. Settling in Paris in late 1907, Rix Nicholas enrolled at both the Académie Delécluse and the Académie Colarossi. In 1910, she travelled to Étaples on the Picardy coast, where there was a large colony of expatriate American, English and Australian artists. She continued travelling to Étaples in the summer to paint until her return to Australia at the end of the war.
- Subjects (general)
- Allegory and Symbols Emotions and Mental States Human Figures
- Subjects (specific)
- bracelets (jewellery) costume (mode of fashion) earrings (jewellery) jewellery women (female humans)
