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George Condo
Untitled (Portrait)
- Estimate
- £20,000 - 30,000†
£37,500
Lot Details
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'Condo 84' lower right; further signed, inscribed and dated 'tenerife and Africa Condo 84' on the reverse
46 x 38.1 cm (18 1/8 x 15 in.)
Painted in 1984.
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George Condo
AmericanPicasso once said, "Good artists borrow, great artists steal." Indeed, American artist George Condo frequently cites Picasso as an explicit source in his contemporary cubist compositions and joyous use of paint. Condo is known for neo-Modernist compositions staked in wit and the grotesque, which draw the eye into a highly imaginary world. Condo came up in the New York art world at a time when art favored brazen innuendo and shock. Student to Warhol, best friend to Basquiat and collaborator with William S. Burroughs, Condo tracked a different path. He was drawn to the endless inquiries posed by the aesthetics and formal considerations of Caravaggio, Rembrandt and the Old Masters.
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