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Souvenir of Seville
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineSouvenir 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
