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Important Australian + International Fine Art - 10 April 2019  |  Sydney

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Lot 64
Charles Conder
(1868 – 1909)
THE BLUE SOFA, c.1905

oil on canvas

86.0 x 112.0 cm


Estimate:
$25,000 – 40,000

Lot sold: $32,940 (inc. BP)

Lot Details

Description
Charles Conder
(1868 – 1909)
THE BLUE SOFA, c.1905

oil on canvas

86.0 x 112.0 cm

signed lower right: CONDER

Provenance

C. Patterson Knight Esq.
The Leger Galleries, London, 1965 (label attached verso)
Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Society, Victoria
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 22 November 1999, lot 62
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

Charles Conder, Leicester Galleries, London, 1905
Charles Conder, Leicester Galleries, London, 1906
Charles Conder, Leicester Galleries, London, January 1913, cat. 67
International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, London, 1907 (partial label attached verso)
Anthony Horden Galleries, Sydney, 1927, cat. 16
The Leger Galleries, London, 1965

Literature

Gibson, F., Charles Conder, His Life and Works, The Bodley Head, London, 1914, pl. LXXXVII (illus.), pp. 49, 101 – 102
Foster, G., ‘A Quest for a Conder’, Art Bulletin of Victoria, Melbourne, 1968 – 9, pp. 39 – 40
Hoff, U., Charles Conder, Lansdowne, Melbourne, 1972, cat. C110 (incorrectly described as signed lower left), no. 35, p. 87 (illus.)
Richardson, D., Art in Australia, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1988, fig. 3.10, pp. 20 (illus.), 21 (collection of Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Society, Victoria)