Gisbourne Arts Society, New ZealandDunbar Sloane, WellingtonRoland Browse & Delbanco,
LondonMartin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
“Charles Conder arrived in Sydney in June 1884, and started work with his
uncle, William Jacomb Conder, in the Lands Department of NSW. He studied
art at night and had his first success when his picture, Departure of the S.S.
Orient,
was purchased from the Royal Art Society of NSW exhibition in 1888.
In October 1888 he went to Melbourne where he joined Roberts, McCubbin and Streeton
at the Box Hill Camp, to become permanently identified with the Heidelberg School.
In 1890 Conder returned to England, his home. Within months, he made
his way to Paris and spent the first couple of years exploring the
Bohemian lifestyle
it had to offer and acquiring from it visual material for his paintings”.
“The subject matter and impressionistic brushwork of this painting seems
to place this work in the period of Conder’s time in France between 1890-1895,
probably on one of his summer trips to the Normandy coastline, before his focus
moved to the art nouveau and his fascination with painting on fan shaped silk
works”.
REFERENCE
Alan McCullouch, Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Hutchinson Group (Australia)
Pty Ltd, Hawthorn, 1984, page 226
Christie’s, Australian and European Paintings, April 1998, page
148, Lot 149
REPRESENTED
National Gallery of AustraliaAll State GalleriesGalerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume,
Paris
