ID 1362853 
Lot 56  | CHARLES CONDER (1868-1909)
Estimate value
£ 8 000 – 12 000 
A Toccata of Galuppi
signed 'CONDER' (lower right) and inscribed 'A TOCATTO (sic) OF GALUPPI' (lower left)
watercolour and gold paint on silk laid down on board
11¼ x 8 in. (28.5 x 20.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1900.
Provenance
Pickford Robert Waller (1849-1930).
Mrs Pickford Waller.
with The Fine Art Society, 1970, from whom acquired by the late Barry Humphries.
Literature
F. Gibson, Charles Conder: His Life and Work, London, 1914, illustrated pl. XXXIV.
J. Rothenstein, The Life and Death of Charles, London, 1938, ‘List of Paintings and Drawings’, pp. 179-181, 282, illustrated facing p. 182.
T. Sato and L. Lambourne (eds), The Wilde Years: Oscar Wilde and the Art of His Time, London, 2000, p. 98 ((illustrated, ‘One of Conder’s finest works, inspired by a poem by Robert Browning with the same title, which describes the mood of melancholia conjured by the music of the eighteenth-century Venetian composer Baldassare Galuppi …’).
A. Galbally, Charles Conder: the last Bohemian, Melbourne, 2002, pp. 213-4, 224, illustrated facing p. 206.
A. Galbally and B. Pearce, Charles Conder, Sydney, 2003, pp.152-3, and 195, no.75, illustrated p.153.
Exhibited
London, Carfax Gallery, Oil Paintings and Paintings on Silk by Charles Conder, December 1900.
London, Barbican Art Galleries, The Wilde Years: Oscar Wilde and the Art of His Time, October 2000-January 2001, cat.54.
Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Charles Conder, June-August 2003 (travelling to Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, September-November 2003 and Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, November 2003-January 2004), no.75.
| Artist: | Charles Edward Conder (1868 - 1909) | 
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Watercolor | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings | 
| Artist: | Charles Edward Conder (1868 - 1909) | 
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Watercolor | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings | 
| Address of auction | CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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