. Charles Conder; his life and work . sword without a track lay open to the heart of Eden,But thickly tangled up with thistle and roseFor ages now, for no one a 5 HIS LIFE AND WORK Through the Australian desert, through the pressOf maddening, wanton Hfe in cities roaring,You held your charter to the radiant gates:Seagates of spring, blossoming rose and snow,Floodgates of night, passion and vision of pain;Therein abide, even in your Chantemesle,That all men pass, where no one ever comes. 43 THE ART OF CHARLES CONDER CONDERS oil paintings are not so generally wellknown as his
. Charles Conder; his life and work . sword without a track lay open to the heart of Eden,But thickly tangled up with thistle and roseFor ages now, for no one a 5 HIS LIFE AND WORK Through the Australian desert, through the pressOf maddening, wanton Hfe in cities roaring,You held your charter to the radiant gates:Seagates of spring, blossoming rose and snow,Floodgates of night, passion and vision of pain;Therein abide, even in your Chantemesle,That all men pass, where no one ever comes. 43 THE ART OF CHARLES CONDER CONDERS oil paintings are not so generally wellknown as his drawings on silk and designs for fans ;nevertheless he painted some very fine canvases almostup to the time of his last illness in 1906. He worked a gooddeal in oil in his Australian days, and then followed the largeand delicately painted landscapes done on or near the Nor-mandy coast, and at Chantemesle and Givernay on the Seine,between the years 1891 and 1895 (indeed there are some whoprefer these pre-Anquetin works, those delicate and dreamyvisions of apple blossom, and the sea, to anything else hedid). And there are the numerous figure paintings, portraits,fetes gala
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