Charles Conder
(1868 - 1909)
THE BLUE SOFA, c.1905
oil on canvas
86.0 x 112.0 cm
signed lower right: CONDER
Estimate:
$25,000 - $40,000
Sold:
$32,940 (inc. BP)
lot details
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)