Overmantel

Details

CHARLES CONDER (1868-1909)
Overmantel
watercolour on silk, shaped
32 5⁄8 x 41 in. (83 x 104 cm.), overall

Provenance

Sir Edmund and Lady Davis, 13 Lansdowne Road, Holland Park.

Literature

F. Gibson, Charles Conder: His Life and Work, London, 1914, pl.C.
C. J. Rothenstein, The Life and Death of Conder, London, 1938, 'List of Paintings and Drawings', p. 268.

Exhibited

London, The Leicester Galleries, Charles Conder Memorial Exhibition, January 1913.

Conditions of sale

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Benedict Winter Associate Director, Specialist

Lot Essay

For the Davis house and Conder’s decorations, see The Architectural Review, 1914, vol. 35, p. 39 'Current Architecture: No. 13 Lansdowne Road, Holland Park, London, W (E.W. Marshall, F.R.I.B.A., Architect)', pls IX and X, and T. Martin Wood, 'A Room Decorated by Charles Conder', The Studio, April 1905, vol. 34, no. 145.

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