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George Condo

Drawing Paintings

Estimate
HK$50,000 - 70,000
€5,500 - 7,800
$6,400 - 9,000
Lot Details
The complete set of 18 digital prints in colours, on wove paper, with full margins, four folded (as issued), with title and checklist pages, all loose (as issued), all contained within the original black cloth-covered clamshell portfolio with gold printed text.
2011
all I. various sizes
fourteen S. 27.3 x 23.5 cm (10 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.)
four S. 27.3 x 47 cm (10 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.)
portfolio 29.8 x 25.7 x 3.2 cm (11 3/4 x 10 1/8 x 1 1/4 in.)
From the unsigned edition of 400 (there was also a signed edition of 100), published by Skarstedt Gallery, New York, on the occasion of the exhibition George Condo: Drawing Paintings, November 4-December 21, 2011, all unframed.

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Catalogue Essay
Including: Comic Relief; Anthropology; Conversations; Figure Change; Cascading Butlers; Internal Voices; Pink and Yellow Sweep; Full Sweep; Heads and Toes; Compression I; Compression II; Compression III; Compression IV; Compression V; Compression VI; Black and Red Compression; Purple Compression; and Parallel Figures

George Condo

American
Picasso 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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