Souvenir of Seville
Medium
watercolor, gouache, and shell gold with graphite on silk
Dimensions
20.3 × 39.7 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King
Accession Number
1962.398
Tags
male
About this artwork
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 composi...