id:			138504
accession number:	1962.398
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.398
updated:		2023-03-10 19:42:41.211000

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

title:				Souvenir of Seville
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creation date:			1905
creation date earliest:		1905
creation date latest:		1905
current location:		
creditline:			In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King
copyright:			

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culture:	England, 20th century
technique:	watercolor, gouache, and shell gold with graphite on silk
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - British
type:		Drawing
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Charles Conder (British, 1868–1909)  - artist

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measurements: Fabric: 20.3 x 39.7 cm (8 x 15 5/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	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
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Fans: East and West
	opening date:   1992-12-15T05:00:00
	<i>Fans: East and West</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 15, 1992-March 7, 1993).

	title:		British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art 
	opening date:   2013-02-10T00:00:00
	<i>British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art </i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert P. Schafer, Shaker Heights, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: ?-1962
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1962-
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fun fact:
Charles Conder exhibited his first fan design in 1893 and created a significant number of similar works over the following 15 years.

digital description:
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.

wall description:
As famous for his watercolors on silk as he was for his dissolute, self-destructive lifestyle, Conder was a member of 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, before succumbing to his final illness.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Galbally, Ann. <em>Charles Conder: The Last Bohemian</em>. Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 2002.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 266
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	Lemonedes, Heather. <em>British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 134-35, 144, no. 46; Reproduced: p. 135
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IMAGES

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