Oil paint on canvas
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Springtime
Purchased 1926
adults
bank
bathing / swimming
blossom
countries and continents
figure
France, Ile-de-France
leisure and pastimes
natural features (non-UK)
people
places
plants and flowers
recreational activities
river
River Seine
rose
seasons
spring
water: inland
painting oil paint canvas
14 June 2003 – 9 November 2003
2003-11-09
14 June 2003 – 17 August 2003
2003-08-17
2003-06-14
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
6 September 2003 – 9 November 2003
2003-11-09
2003-09-06
National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au
2003-06-14
Charles Conder Retrospective
Loan-out
15 June 2013 – 7 October 2013
2013-10-07
15 June 2013 – 7 October 2013
2013-10-07
2013-06-15
National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au
2013-06-15
Australian Impressionists in France
Loan-out
2 April 2015 – 25 September 2022
2022-09-25
28 March 2015
2015-03-28
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2015-04-02
Gallery 8
Collection based display
Springtime
support: 730 × 593 mm
Purchased 1926
<p><b>N04221</b> SPRINGTIME 1892
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Charles Conder 1892’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 28 3/4×23 3/4 (73×59·5).
<br/>Purchased from Arthur Tooth &amp; Sons (Clarke Fund) 1926.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> (?) Salon de la Société Nationale, Paris, 1892 (255), as ‘Les Roses’; Tate Gallery, July–September 1927 (98).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Gibson, 1914, pp.35–6, 96; Rothenstein, 1938, p.259, as ‘Springtime’, but repr. facing p.84 as ‘Blossoms at Dennemont’.
<br/><i>Repr:</i>
<i>Tate Gallery Illustrations, British School</i>, 1938, p.89; Carlos Peacock, <i>Painters and Writers</i>, 1946, pl.49 (in colour).</p>
<p>The motif of this <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> is similar to a larger picture, 42 1/2×31 1/2 (108×80), in a private collection in Vienna, and to ‘Apple Blossom, Dennemont’ (repr. Gibson, <i>op. cit.</i>, pl.10), now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Rothenstein records (<i>op. cit.</i>, p.81) that: ‘During the year 1892 Conder grew very familiar with the beautiful country about the banks of the Seine below Paris, especially the region of which Mantes is the centre. His friends took him to their favourite haunts: Anquetin to Vétheuil, Dujardin to Dennemont, and Blunt to La Roche-Guyon.’ Paintings entitled ‘May Day’ and ‘Blossom’ were exhibited at the Paris <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/salon" title="Glossary definition for 'Salon'"><span>Salon</span></a> de la Société Nationale of 1893 (243) and the International Society, London, May 1898 (91) respectively. See also <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/conder-the-plum-tree-n03423" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03423</span></a>.</p>
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2004-10-06T00:00:00
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adults bank bathing / swimming blossom countries and continents figure France, Ile-de-France leisure and pastimes natural features (non-UK) people places plants and flowers recreational activities river River Seine rose seasons spring water: inland