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Les fleurs dédaignées
Les fleurs dédaignées is a 1925 painting by Australian artist Hilda Rix Nicholas.
Artist background.
Emily Hilda Rix (known invariably as Hilda) was born in Ballarat, Victoria on 1 September 1884. She trained at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School from 1902 to 1905, where she was taught by a leading member of the Heidelberg School, Frederick McCubbin. After the death of her father in 1906, her family sailed for England early in 1907, where Hilda Rix trained for a time before
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In 1925, Rix Nicholas created one of her most extraordinary works, which would also be her largest canvas. Standing almost high, and wide, "Les fleurs dédaignées" ('The despised flowers') is an "unnerving" and "arresting" portrait of a young woman in fashionable eighteenth-century clothing. Painted not with the artist's typical technique, but in a mannerist style, the subject faces the viewer yet is glancing away, her pose tense, with a bunch of discarded flowers on the