Title
African slave woman
(1914)
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- African Slave Woman
- Date
- (1914)
- Media categories
- Pastel , Drawing
- Materials used
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 53.4 x 37.8 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. corner, black pastel "E.H.Rix. [monogram]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1919
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 4597
- Copyright
- © Estate of Hilda Rix Nicholas
- Artist information
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Hilda Rix Nicholas
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About
Hilda Rix Nicholas made this drawing on a trip to Tangier, Morocco, where she occupied herself with drawing the people and activities of the local market square. The subject of the drawing sat for her portrait in the artist's hotel studio, a room she had been offered by the hotel proprietor, Mademoiselle Davin. Rix Nicholas described her as an enslaved person who had been '...freed from her duties by the death of her master and (was) looking for work' (R Travers 'Hilda, the life of Hilda Rix Nicholas' Thames and Hudson 2021 p.82). Mlle Davin persuaded the woman to sit, after Rix Nicholas had identified her as a good subject in the market. Rix Nicholas later described this work as 'the best drawing I had done in my two trips to Morocco'.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Exhibition of drawings and oil paintings by E.H. Rix Nicholas (1919), Anthony Horderns' Fine Art Gallery, Sydney, 1919–1919
Une Australienne: Hilda Rix Nicholas in Paris, Tangier and Sydney, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman, 03 May 2014–13 Jul 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 6 publications
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Anthony Horderns' Fine Art Gallery, Exhibition of drawings and oil paintings by E.H. Rix Nicholas, 'Drawings.', Sydney, 1919. cat.no. 47; not paginated
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Jeanette Hoorn, Hilda Rix Nicholas and Elsie Rix's Moroccan idyll: art and Orientalism, Melbourne, 2012, 167, 168 (illus.), 192.
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales (Compilator), The National Art Gallery of New South Wales: Illustrated Catalogue 1925, 'Drawings-Australian', pg. 173-179, Sydney, 1925, 178. titled 'African Slave Woman'; cat.no. 58
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Julie Petersen, Une Australienne: Hilda Rix Nicholas in Paris, Tangier & Sydney, 'The return of the cosmopolitan artist', pg. 39-72, Mosman, 2014, 29 (colour illus.), 74.
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Jill Sykes (Editor), Look, 'Link across the Harbour', pg. 8, Sydney, Jun 2014, 8 (colour illus.).
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The Studio, 'Sketching in Morocco: a letter from Miss Hilda Rix', pg.35-41, London, 1914, 36 (illus.). titled 'An African slave woman'
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