Smith & Singer
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CHARLES CONDER
1868-1909

Moonlight (1889)

Estimate $80,000 – $120,000

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CHARLES CONDER

1868-1909
Moonlight (1889)

oil on canvas on board
signed 'CHAS CONDER' lower right
30.2 x 60.3 cm

  • Lot Sold $155,000 (Hammer Price)
  • $190,227 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Charles Conder, Sydney
Dr S.A. Smith, Sydney, by 1918, until at least 1924
Private Collection
The Estate of the Late Nancy Hertzberg, Sydney
Important Australian Art, Sotheby's Australia (now trading as Smith & Singer), Melbourne, 20 April 2010, lot 23, illustrated
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above

Exhibited

Loan Exhibition of Australian Art, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 4 April 1918, no. 4
Loan Exhibition: Pictures & Curios, Culwulla Chambers, Sydney, 8-28 October 1924, no. 30, 'Nocturne'
Young City: Young Lives, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 3 May - 23 June 1996
Australian Symbolism: The Art of Dreams, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 May - 29 July 2012, illustrated

Literature

'Conder's Paintings', The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 8 December 1953, p. 2
Mary Eagle, The Oil Paintings of Charles Conder in the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1997, p. 37 (illustrated)
Denise Mimmocchi, Australian Symbolism: The Art of Dreams, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2012, pp. 86, 88 (illustrated), 144

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Specialists

Geoffrey Smith

Geoffrey Smith

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Australian & International Art 
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Administrator, Art

Australian & International Art 
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David Mackay

Gallery Manager

Sydney 
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Important Australian Art

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