Title
Flower market, Nice
circa 1926
Artist
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Details
- Date
- circa 1926
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 57.5 x 70.5 cm sight; 60.0 x 73.0 cm stretcher; 68.0 x 81.0 x 4.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.l. corner, brown oil "CARRICK-FOX". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1955
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- 9118
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Ethel Carrick
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About
Ethel Carrick painted vivacious impressionist-influenced European landscapes, market scenes and flower pieces. After studying in London early in the 20th century, Carrick settled in Paris in 1905 where she became actively involved with women’s painting societies. She travelled extensively with her artist-husband, E Phillips Fox, in France, Italy, Northern Africa and Spain.
After Fox’s death in 1915, Carrick lived mostly abroad, travelling in Europe, painting in Majorca, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and India, and in the 1930s living in Kashmir. Her paintings commonly displayed an interest in figures, objects and her surrounding environment, rendered as patterns of colour and light, as shown in this painting, 'Flower market, Nice'.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1955, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 09 Feb 1956–29 Feb 1956
E. Carrick Fox retrospective (1979), Geelong Gallery, Geelong, 28 Mar 1979–04 May 1979
E. Carrick Fox retrospective (1979), S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 11 May 1979–03 Jun 1979
E. Carrick Fox retrospective (1979), University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 13 Jun 1979–05 Jul 1979
Art, love and life: Ethel Carrick and E. Phillips Fox, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 16 Apr 2011–07 Aug 2011
Intrepid Women: Australian women artists in Paris 1950, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 01 Dec 2017–25 Mar 2018
20th-Century galleries, ground level (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Deborah Edwards, Daphne Wallace, Margo Neale, Victoria Lynn and Sandra Byron, Review: works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1995.
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Angela Goddard, Art, love and life: Ethel Carrick and E Phillips Fox, 'Modernity in motion: Ethel Carrick's crowds', pg. 79-80, Brisbane, 2011, 80 (colour illus.).
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Elin Howe, Ethel Carrick Fox, Sydney, 1986, 25, 26.
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Purchases and Acquisitions for 1955 National Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney, 1956, 6. cat.no. 8
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Sotheby's Australia: important Australian art: Sydney, 27 August 2019, Melbourne, 2019, 72 (colour illus.). Reference to 'Flower market, Nice' in catalogue entry for 'The market' 1919.
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