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Nasturtiums is an oil painting by the Australian Impressionist painter Emanuel Phillips Fox painted in 1912 during a period of great creativity for the artist in which he produced some of his finest works.It shows a woman wearing a printed mauve dress black hat and black gloves reading in a garden seated in a cane chair against a background of climbing nasturtium leaves and flowers growing up a trellis.After being owned by the model’s family the Boyds since its creation it was purchased in 2011 at auction by the Society of the Art Gallery of New South Wales as a memorial to Margaret Olley a Sydney painter and longtime patron of the gallery who had died a few months earlier.
