Sur la Plage

Details

ETHEL CARRICK FOX (1872-1952)
Sur la Plage
signed 'Carrick' (lower left); signed and inscribed 'Sur la plage/Ethel Carrick/? Aug' on distressed label (affixed to the reverse)
oil on board
25.8 x 33.9 cm
Painted circa 1909, (possibly at Trouville or Deauville, France)
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Provenance

Gift of the artist to her sister-in-law Irene Fox
Private collection, Melbourne

Literature

M Eagle, The Oil Paintings of E. Phillips Fox in the National Gallery of Australia, ACT, 1997, illus. p. 52

Exhibited

(possibly) Paris, Salon d'Automne, 1910, cat. no. 202
(possibly) Paris, Sociéte Nationale des Beaux Arts (New Salon), 1911, cat. no. 247
Geelong, Geelong Art Gallery; Sydney, S.H. Ervin Gallery; Brisbane, University Art Museum, Ethel Carrick (Mrs E. Phillips Fox) A Retrospective Exhibition, 30 March - 5 July 1979, cat. no.17, illus.

Special notice

A 10% Goods and Services tax (G.S.T) will be charged on the Buyer's Premium on all lots in this sale.

Lot Essay

"Carrick was fascinated by the French preoccupation with high fashion at the beach she painted French women stylishly dressed, in picture hats, carrying colourful parasols Nannies and nursemaids look after well-dressed, clean children, the sun shines and the world is an orderly place

(Figures are) silhouetted against what became Carrick's speciality, painting the colourful red and white striped bathing tents for hire on French beaches. These were designed to guard the modesty of women in the days when bare legs and arms were seen as shocking and swimming costumes had sleeves and long legs." (S de Vries, Ethel Carrick Fox Travels and Triumphs of a Post Impressionist, Brisbane, 1997, pp. 72-73)

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