CHARLES CONDER (1868-1909) Quayside at Algeciras, Spain signed 'CONDER' (lower left) oil on canvas 21 5⁄8 x 29½ in. (55 x 75 cm.) Painted circa 1905.
Provenance
with Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London. Gisborne Arts Society, Gisborne, New Zealand. with Dunbar Sloane, Wellington. with Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney. Private collection, Sydney. Anonymous sale; Christie's, Melbourne, 27 April 1998, lot 149 ('Quayside') (unsold). Anonymous sale; Deutscher-Menzies, 27 November 2002, lot 31, where acquired by the late Barry Humphries.
Conder and his wife sailed on the S.S. Britannica from Plymouth to Gibraltar in 1905 and stayed briefly at Algericas, across the bay from Gibraltar, before travelling through Spain.
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