Souvenir of Seville
1905
Charles Conder
Charles Conder (British, 1868–1909)
Drawings
Souvenir of Seville, 1905. Charles Conder (British, 1868–1909). Watercolor, gouache, and shell gold with graphite on silk; fabric: 20.3 x 39.7 cm (8 x 15 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King 1962.398 As famous for his watercolors on silk as he was for his self-destructive lifestyle, Charles Conder belonged to a generation that the poet W. B. Yeats called "the last Romantics." His delicately tinted watercolors seem like fragments of a lost era, conjuring an imaginary world of beauty, leisure, and luxury. This painted fan was made on a trip to Spain that Conder took with his wife, Stella Maris, to witness the celebration and pageantry of Holy Week and Easter. Its bold color and dynamic composition memorialized a period of health and happiness spent in the Mediterranean. Charles Conder exhibited his first fan design in 1893 and created a significant number of similar works over the following 15 years.
- Maker/Artist
- Conder, Charles
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- watercolor, gouache, and shell gold with graphite on silk
- Dimensions
- Fabric: 20.3 x 39.7 cm (8 x 15 5/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Inscribed, at center, in red watercolor and shell gold: FOR MY DEAR / STELLA / MARIS / SOUVENIR / OF SEVILLE / APRIL 1905; signed at lower left, in gray watercolor: CONDER; at lower right, in red watercolor and shell gold: CONDER
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1962.398
- Credit Line
- In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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