The Fatal Colors [sic]

Details

Artist

Charles Conder

Title

The Fatal Colors [sic]

Year

1888

Medium

oil on wood panel

Size

37.8 x 21.6

Details

Signed and dated 1888 lower left; inscribed with title lower right

Stock Number

290051

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Acquired by a private collection.

Provenance

Lawrence Abrahams (possibly from the artist)

The Magnificent Collection of Australian Pictures made by the Late Lawrence Abrahams, Decoration Co., Melbourne, 16 June, 1919, lot 36

George Page Cooper, Melbourne

The George Page Cooper Collection of Historical Australian Paintings, Old Masters, Bronzes etc., Leonard Joel, 21 - 22 November 1967, addendum

Mrs G.M. Chartres, Melbourne
Australian Paintings, Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 5 November 1980, lot 868

Lauraine Diggins Fine Arts, Melbourne

David Bremer, Melbourne

AGC Limited

Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne

private collection, Melbourne

Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne

private collection, Melbourne

Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne

private collection, Sydney

Sotheby's Melbourne, 25.08.2008, lot 18

private collection, Melbourne

Lauraine Diggins Fine Art

private collection, Hobart

Exhibited

Exhibition of art from painters of Heidelberg School of Art, Sir Arthur Streeton, Charles Conder, Fred McCubbin and Tom Roberts; pictures on loan from National Gallery of Victoria, Ballarat Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, Castlemaine Art Gallery and private collections, First City of Mordialloc Arts Festival, 1965, cat. 36

''Golden Summers: Heidelberg and Beyond'', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1985-86

''The Australian Impressionists: The Origins & Influences'', Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne; Westpac Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne; St Neot's, Sydney, 1988, cat. 9

''Charles Conder'', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne;Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2003, cat. 5

''Australian Impressionism'', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2007, cat. 4.4 (illus)

Literature

Gibson, F., ''Charles Conder, His Life and Work'', Bodley Head, London, 1914, p. 93

Moore, W., ''The Story of Australian Art (2 vols)'', Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1934, vol. II, p. 27

Hoff, U., ''Charles Conder, His Australian Years'', National Gallery Society of Victoria, Melbourne, 1960, cat. 26 (illus. pl.13)

Hoff, U., "Charles Conder", in ''Art and Australia'', May 1964, p. 31

Hoff, U., ''Charles Conder'', Lansdowne, Melbourne, 1972, cat. C23 (illus. fig. 6)

Clark, J. and Whitelaw, B., ''Golden Summers: Heidelberg and Beyond'', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, p. 103 (illus.)

Smith, G., ''Arthur Streeton 1867-1943'', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1995, p. 46, no. 2

Eagle, M., ''The Oil Paintings of Charles Conder in the National Gallery of Australia'', National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1997, p. 24

Galbally, A., and Pearce, B., ''Charles Conder'', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2003, cat. 5, pp. 44, 74 (illus.)
Lane, T., (ed.), ''Australian Impressionism'', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2007, cat. 4.4, pp. 82, 319 (illus.)