Lot 90
Charles Conder (1868-1909)
Cushion design with two women in a circle with elaborate flourishes and decoration, watercolour on silk, 1898
Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000
Description
Charles Conder (1868-1909)
Cushion design with two women in a circle with elaborate flourishes and decoration
Watercolour on silk, 310 x 405 mm (12 1/4 x 15 7/8 in), under glass, some minor rubbing and creases to edges, presented within ornate Art Nouveau arched frame with metalwork decoration and inset stone, [circa 1895-1898]
Provenance:
Fitz Thaulow (Norwegian Impressionist painter, 1847-1906), Villa des Orchides;
By descent, from whom acquired by Barry Humphries.
⁂ "On one of his many visits to Dieppe, between 1895 and 1898, Conder was the guest of Fitz Thaulow, the Norwegian Impressionist, at his house, the Villa des Orchides in the Rue des Fontaines. Whilst there he executed a number of panels on silk for the decoration of the house. He also improved, in watercolour, several cushion covers. The house was demolished at the turn of the century... but Conder's fragile and fugitive decorations miraculously survived in the possession of the Thaulow family in Oslo, from which collection this cushion was acquired.
Thaulow was host to many notable artistic expatriates of the period, including Oscar Wilde in his post-vincular exile, and there exists no evidence that the cushion by Conder was not, at some time, depressed by the poet's pomaded occiput.' [Text by Barry Humphries]
Description
Charles Conder (1868-1909)
Cushion design with two women in a circle with elaborate flourishes and decoration
Watercolour on silk, 310 x 405 mm (12 1/4 x 15 7/8 in), under glass, some minor rubbing and creases to edges, presented within ornate Art Nouveau arched frame with metalwork decoration and inset stone, [circa 1895-1898]
Provenance:
Fitz Thaulow (Norwegian Impressionist painter, 1847-1906), Villa des Orchides;
By descent, from whom acquired by Barry Humphries.
⁂ "On one of his many visits to Dieppe, between 1895 and 1898, Conder was the guest of Fitz Thaulow, the Norwegian Impressionist, at his house, the Villa des Orchides in the Rue des Fontaines. Whilst there he executed a number of panels on silk for the decoration of the house. He also improved, in watercolour, several cushion covers. The house was demolished at the turn of the century... but Conder's fragile and fugitive decorations miraculously survived in the possession of the Thaulow family in Oslo, from which collection this cushion was acquired.
Thaulow was host to many notable artistic expatriates of the period, including Oscar Wilde in his post-vincular exile, and there exists no evidence that the cushion by Conder was not, at some time, depressed by the poet's pomaded occiput.' [Text by Barry Humphries]
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