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Windy Day at Brighton
Purchased 1922
adults
animals: mammals
architecture
Brighton - non-specific
carriage
child
children
England
England, South East
England, Southern
girl
horse
house
kite
kite flying
leisure and pastimes
man
objects
people
pier
places
promenade
recreational activities
residential
sea
seafront
seascapes and coasts
society
streetlight
Sussex - non-specific
Sussex, East
townscapes / man-made features
toys and models
transport: land
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
walking
weather
wind
woman
<p>Conder was a student in Paris in the 1890s, and remained an Anglo-French painter, spending time equally in London and Paris. He liked to paint the coast of the English Channel, as if en route for Calais or Dieppe. In this view of the Front at Brighton the tall man at the right is said to be the painter Sickert, who also worked in both London and Paris, and who was one of those who brought Impressionism to Britain. In some of his work Conder nostalgically revived French eighteenth-century amorous subjects, and often painted watercolours on silk fans. The schoolgirl here who flies a kite, isolated in summer clothes when everyone else wears coats, is similarly a reminder of the fragility of youth.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
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 2005 – 4 September 2005
2005-09-04
15 June 2005 – 4 September 2005
2005-09-04
2005-06-15
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2005-06-15
A Picture of Britain
Exhibition
Windy Day at Brighton
support: 635 × 914 mm
frame: 795 × 1046 × 90 mm
Purchased 1922
<p>Conder was a student in Paris in the 1890s, and remained an Anglo-French painter, spending time equally in London and Paris. He liked to paint the coast of the English Channel, as if en route for Calais or Dieppe. In this view of the Front at Brighton the tall man at the right is said to be the painter Sickert, who also worked in both London and Paris, and who was one of those who brought <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/impressionism" title="Glossary definition for 'Impressionism'"><span>Impressionism</span></a> to Britain. In some of his work Conder nostalgically revived French eighteenth-century amorous subjects, and often painted <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolours</span></a> on silk fans. The schoolgirl here who flies a kite, isolated in summer clothes when everyone else wears coats, is similarly a reminder of the fragility of youth.</p>
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<p><b>N03645</b> WINDY DAY AT BRIGHTON <i>c.</i> 1904–5
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 25×36 (63×91·5).
<br/>Purchased from the Eldar Gallery (Clarke Fund) 1922.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> J. L. Rayner of the Eldar Gallery.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> (?) Leicester Galleries, December 1905–January 1906 (18), as ‘A November day at Brighton’; Leicester Galleries, January 1913 (57), as ‘Windy day’.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Gibson, 1914, pp.41, 47, repr. pl.54; J. B. Manson, <i>The Tate Gallery</i>, 1929, p.103; Rothenstein, 1938, p.259.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Tate Gallery Illustrations</i>, 1928, pl.81.</p>
<p>The date of this picture is not known for certain and several <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>paintings</span></a> of Brighton appear to exist. Mrs Florence Humphrey, an aunt of the artist's sister-in-law, has noted in a short chronology, now in the Gallery archives, that Conder painted at Brighton in 1904. On the other hand Manson (<i>loc. cit.</i>) has recorded that ‘the characteristic figure of Mr Walter Sickert’ is introduced on the right-hand side of the picture. Sickert did not settle in England again until 1905, although it is quite possible that the <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/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> was made from memory.</p>
<p>The artist exhibited two Brighton subjects at the Leicester Galleries in December 1905, namely No.18, ‘A November Day at Brighton’, and No.25, ‘A Stormy Day at Brighton’, which is now in the Municipal Gallery, Dublin. No.3645 might be the former, as the cold grey tonalities of the picture suggests that a winter day is depicted.</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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Catalogue entry
2004-10-05T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
adults animals: mammals architecture Brighton - non-specific carriage child children England England, South East England, Southern girl horse house kite kite flying leisure and pastimes man objects people pier places promenade recreational activities residential sea seafront seascapes and coasts society streetlight Sussex, East Sussex - non-specific townscapes / man-made features toys and models transport: land UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions walking weather wind woman