Watercolour on fabric
Tate Collection
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Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/charles-conder-934" aria-label="More by Charles Conder" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Charles Conder</a>
In Blue Country or Colloque Sentimentale
Purchased 1942
actions: postures and motions
adults
colour
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
group
groups
landscape
people
standing
tree
valley
woman
painting watercolour fabric
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
In the Blue Country or Colloque Sentimentale
support: 248 × 400 mm
frame: 475 × 630 × 53 mm
Purchased 1942
<p><b>N05365</b>	AU PAYS BLEU <i>or</i> COLLOQUE SENTIMENTALE
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<br/>Not inscribed.	
<br/>Watercolour on silk, 9 3/4×15 3/4 (24×40).	
<br/>Purchased at Christie's (Benson Fund) 1942.	
<br/><i>Coll:</i>
Sir Edmund Davis, sold Christie's, 15 May 1942 (33), as ‘Three Ladies, in a garden near a river: a bridge beyond’, bought by Nicholson for the Tate Gallery.	
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>The Collection of Edmund Davis</i>, French Gallery, March 1915 (36), as ‘Colloque Sentimentale’.	
<br/><i>Lit:</i>
Rothenstein, 1938, p.267.	
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Burlington Magazine</i>, XV, 1909, pl.2, facing p.13, as ‘Au Pays Bleu’; <i>Studio</i>, LXV, 1915, facing p.8 (in colour), as ‘Colloque Sentimentale’.	</p>
<p>A <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/chalk" title="Glossary definition for 'Chalk'"><span>chalk</span></a> <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> ‘Au Pays Bleu’, exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, January 1913 (23), is reproduced by Gibson, 1914, pl.41, and shows a completely different <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a>. This may explain the change in title which occurred between 1909 and 1915.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I</p>
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2004-10-07T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults colour emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities group groups landscape people standing tree valley woman