two standing little girls wearing identical black dresses, red tights, and black shoes with large black balls on the uppers, with identical updone hairstyles; each girl has a thick tail emerging from beneath their skirts; girls face each other with hands touching; in black and red on tan paper

%C2%A9 Nicola Hicks

Real Friends, 1997

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In Real Friends, Nicola Hicks brings to bear her alluring skill with friable media, her fantasy, and her sly humor. Working with chalk, charcoal, and pastel, she varies her touch from grinding pressure to the gentlest strokes, then she smears and blends passages to achieve rich velvety effects. Initially, we are taken by the sweet innocence of the two little girls in matching outfits—are those Mouseketeer ears'—but our first impression is undercut by the stout, rat-like tails protruding below the hems of their dresses.

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Details
Title
Real Friends
Artist Life
born 1960
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2019.120
Provenance
[Flowers Gallery, London and New York, 1997]; Carol and Kim Bemis, Minneapolis, 1997-2019; given to MIA, 2019.
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two standing little girls wearing identical black dresses, red tights, and black shoes with large black balls on the uppers, with identical updone hairstyles; each girl has a thick tail emerging from beneath their skirts; girls face each other with hands touching; in black and red on tan paper

© Nicola Hicks

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