CHARLES CONDER (1868-1909)
CHARLES CONDER (1868-1909)
CHARLES CONDER (1868-1909)
CHARLES CONDER (1868-1909)
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CHARLES CONDER (1868-1909)

The beach at Pourville

Details
CHARLES CONDER (1868-1909)
The beach at Pourville
signed and dated 'CONDER .95' (lower right)
oil on canvas
18 ¼ x 21 7⁄8 in. (46.5 x 55.5 cm.)
Painted in 1895.
Provenance
(probably) Mrs A. B. Clifton, Mersham Manor, Ashford, Kent; sale Christie’s, London, 8 June 1934, lot 84 (‘The Beach, Pourville’).
Thomas Geoffrey Blackwell, O.B.E., and thence by descent; sale Christie's, London, 28 May 1992, lot 88.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 4 June 2003, lot 9, where acquired by the late Barry Humphries.
Literature
J. Rothenstein, The Life and Death of Conder, London, 1938, 'List of Paintings and Drawings', p. 265 ('A Beach in France').
Exhibited
Amsterdam, The Loan Exhibition of British Art, July-October, 1936.
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Lot Essay


Conder spent the summer of 1895 in Dieppe in the company of Blanche, Beardsley, Dujardin, the Halévys and the Thaulows at their fashionable villas on the rue Alexandre Dumas.

' "All summer he painted like a madman" said Blanche. The sense of the plenitude of his powers, as an intimation, that grew more insistent year by year thereafter, of an early death, gave him a demoniac energy – he was always at it. … The painting of imaginary scenes on silk was what chiefly occupied his time, and by now he had come to prefer the fan shape above all others, feeling that it offered the fullest scope for his particular gifts of colour and composition. In addition, although he made no notes or very few from nature, he painted in oil and watercolour a number of beach scenes with figures – always a favourite subject.’ (J. Rothenstein, op. cit., pp.119-122).

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