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MacColl of the Spectator was the first English critic to recognise Conder’s genius Galbally, 2002

DUGALD MACCOLL (1859-1949)

Portrait head of Charles Conder

Details

DUGALD MACCOLL (1859-1949)
Portrait head of Charles Conder
signed with initials 'DSM' (lower left)
charcoal and pencil on paper
7 x 6 in. (18 x 16 cm.)

Provenance

with The Leicester Galleries, London, July 1940, acquired by Sir Hugh Walpole (1884-1941).
Sir Rupert Hart-Davies (1907-1999), by whom bequeathed to the late Barry Humphries.

Literature

A. Galbally, Charles Conder the last bohemian, Melbourne, 2002, illustrated p.120.

Exhibited

London, The Leicester Galleries, July 1940.
Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, Charles Conder 1868-1909, September-October 1967 (‘This drawing probably dates from the summer of 1893.’)

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Lot Essay

‘In 1892 he met D.S. MacColl, who was in Paris writing up the Salon for L’Indépendence Belge. MacColl invited him to lunch; Conder failed to keep the appointment, but by chance the two men met in the street the next day, Conder dejected after a wild night. Though inauspicious in its beginnings, a friendship grew up between the two that lasted until Conder’s death.’ (J. Rothenstein, The life and death of Conder, London, 1938, pp.81-2). MacColl, ‘the enfant terrible of English Art Criticism at the time’ (Sheffield, 1967), published the first important criticism of Conder’s work in The Studio, vol. 13, May 1898.

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