Emily Hilda Rix Nicholas - There was a Dear Old Fairy GodMother

There is a Dear Old Fairy GodMother who Poses for Us

Emily Hilda Rix Nicholas's original pastel drawing entitled, There is a Dear Old Fairy GodMother who Poses for Us is drawn upon wove paper and with full margins as created by the artist around 1912 - 1914. It is signed "E. H. Rix" by the artist in the lower right corner. Also titled and annotated by the artist on the accompanying portion of backing board. Dear Old Fairy GodMother represents a superb example of the famous art created by the British / Australian painter, Emily Hilda Rix Nicholas.

Fairy GodMother Original Pastel Drawing by Emily Hilda Rix Nicholas

There is a Dear Old Fairy GodMother who Poses for Us

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Title:	There is a Dear Old Fairy GodMother who Poses for Us
Artist:	Rix Nicholas, Emily Hilda (Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 1884 - Delegate, New South Wales, 1961)
Date:	c. 1912 - 1914
Medium:	Original Pastel Drawing
Note:	Emily Hilda Rix Nicholas: One of Australia's great twentieth century painters, Emily Hilda Rix Nicholas first studied art at the National Gallery School, under Frederick McCubbin (1902-1905). Along with her sister and mother, she then departed for London in 1907 to study under John Hassall at the New Art School of Kensington. Her studies were completed in the following year in Paris when she took lessons at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, under Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen and Claudio Castelucho.
	Until the outbreak of World War One, Hilda Rix Nicholas lived and worked in Paris. For a four year period (1910-1914), however she established herself at the artist's colony in Etaples, Picardy, during the summer and autumn. She also journeyed twice to Spain and Morocco at this time. There is a Dear Old Fairy Godmother who Poses for Us was drawn by Emily Hilda Rix Nicholas while residing at Etaples, Picardy.
	Rix Nicholas's drawings and paintings of both Picardy and Morocco led to rapid international acclaim. A large painting was exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais (1911) and many drawings and paintings were included in exhibitions conducted by the Societe des Peintres Orientalistes, Paris. In 1912 the Government of France purchased her, Grand Marche, Tangier, for the Luxembourg Gallery. Both The Studio, in London, and Notre Gazette, in Paris, published extensive articles upon her art. French critics enthusiastically compared her work with such masters as Besnard, Lenoir, Forain and Lautrec.
	Success gave way to tragedy at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Along with her sister and mother, Hilda Rix Nicholas was forced to evacuate Etaples for London. Several months later her sister, Elsie Rix, died of enteric fever. Her mother, Elizabeth Rix, passed away in early 1916. Later that year, Hilda Rix Nicholas met and married Major George Nicholas of Australia's 24th Battalion, in London. After a short honeymoon, Major Nicholas returned to the French Front where he was killed in action at Flers. Emily Hilda Rix Nicholas maintained her husband's name throughout the remainder of her artistic career, although she remarried in 1928.
	At the war's end (1918), Emily Hilda Rix Nicholas left England for Australia. Settling first in Sydney, her art was widely exhibited there and in Melbourne. During the following six years she continued to establish herself as one of Australia's finest painters, but not without raising some strife within the conservative and male dominated artistic establishment. More accustomed to the liberal atmosphere of France, Emily Rix Nicholas began to explore the landscape themes of Australia's great wilderness. In Australia portraiture and still life were the subjects for 'women' painters; landscape was the domain of male artists.
	In 1924, Emily Hilda Rix Nicholas was invited to exhibit her Australian art in both France and England and returned to Paris. Again, the government of France purchased one of her most important paintings, In Australia, and she exhibited at London's prestigious, Royal Academy. She returned to Australia in 1926. During the same year she was also elected an Associate of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts.
	In many ways, Emily Rix Nicholas's art was more famous in France and Britain then in her native Australia. In her following years in Australia both ill health and gender related attacks upon her art took their toll. During the last several decades, however, major retrospective exhibitions of her art have been launched in Melbourne, Victoria and Sydney. Emily Hilda Rix Nicholas is now rightly regarded as one of Australia's finest twentieth century artists.
	In his book, Hilda Rix Nicholas: Her Life and Art, John Pigot comments upon Rix Nicholas's drawings of Picardy, "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. ... 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 the other artists working in Etaples." * (John Pigot, Hilda Rix Nicholas: Her Life and Art, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, Victoria, Australia, 2000, p. 20).
	Pigot writes that during her later years at Etaples (1912-1914), Hilda Rix Nicholas concentrated upon portrayals of peasant and elderly women, in both her drawings and paintings. This original drawing, therefore, was no doubt created by the artist at this time. It also appears that it was used as an illustration for a 1922 article published in the Australian arts periodical, Home. Entitled, "An Artist's Colony in Picardy", the article was written by Hilda Rix Nicholas's late sister and illustrated with drawings the artist created when both sisters lived there. Emily Hilda Rix Nicholas wrote the title of this drawing as well as its placement for the article in pen on the backing board for the drawing. This is included with this text.
Size:	14 1/2 x 10 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
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Condition:	Drawn upon wove paper and with full margins as created by the artist around 1912 - 1914. Signed "E. H. Rix" by the artist in the lower right corner. Also titled and annotated by the artist on the accompanying portion of backing board. The drawing contains one very slight, restored hairline tear along the lower central margin and glue marks in the outer four corners from its attachment to the former backing board, else in excellent condition throughout without a trace of light staining, rubbing or discolouration. Needless to say, this exquisite, original drawing represents a superb example of the famous art of Emily Hilda Rix Nicholas.
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