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George Condo

Portrait Composition

Estimate
£80,000 - 120,000
£103,200
Lot Details
charcoal and wax crayon on paper
signed and dated 'George Condo July 2018' upper left
76.5 x 55.8 cm (30 1/8 x 21 7/8 in.)
Executed in 2018, in the United States of America.

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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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