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CHARLES CONDER (1868-1909)

Lot 53
13.02.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1362868
Lot 53 | CHARLES CONDER (1868-1909)
Estimate value
£ 7 000 – 10 000
CHARLES CONDER (1868-1909)
Fantasia
signed 'CONDER' (lower left)
watercolour and bodycolour on silk
30 5/8 x 16½ in. (78 x 42 cm.)
in an Art Nouveau style gilt frame by Simon Cooper.




Provenance

Berlin Photographic Company Galleries, New York, from whom bought by John Quinn, New York, August 1912 ($1,500).
John Quinn estate 1924-1927.
J.H. Johnstone, London.
Archibald George Blomefield Russell, C.V.O., F.S.A., F.R.Ent. Soc., J.P. (Lancaster Herald).
with Maas Galleries, London, 1964.
with The Leicester Galleries, London, 1965-1966.
Mrs Charlotte Frieze, London; sale, Christie's, South Kensington, 28 May 1987, lot 167.
Private collection, Australia.
Anonymous sale; Mossgreen, Sydney, 31 May 2010, lot 55, where acquired by the late Barry Humphries.



Literature

F. Gibson, Charles Conder: His Life and Work, London, 1914, p.105 (‘Blue Fantasia’), illustrated pl. XCIX.
J. Rothenstein, The Life and Death of Charles Conder, London, 1938, p. 207.
J. Zilczer, “The Noble Buyer”, John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde, Washington, 1978, p.153.



Exhibited

New York, Berlin Photographic Company Galleries, December 1911 (as ‘Blue Fantasia’).
London, Maas Gallery, Pre-Raphaelites Art Nouveau, June 1964, no.42.
London, The Leicester Galleries, New Year Exhibition of paintings drawings and sculpture by 19th and 20th century artists, 1966, no.7.
Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, Charles Conder 1868-1909, September-October 1967, no.107.
London, Morley College, Morley Gallery, Artists of The Leicester Galleries, 1969.
Leeds, Leeds City Art Gallery, on loan December 1970-1974.
Aberford, Lotherton Hall (Leeds Museums & Galleries), on loan 1974-February 1975.
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