George Condo - 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Evening Sale Hong Kong Saturday, May 27, 2017 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Simon Lee Gallery, London
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2011

  • Artist Biography

    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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10

Naked Lunch

2008
signed and dated 'Condo 08' on the reverse
oil on canvas
91.7 x 102 cm (36 1/8 x 40 1/8 in.)
Painted in 2008.

Estimate
HK$1,400,000 - 2,400,000 
€169,000-289,000
$179,000-308,000

Sold for HK$2,480,000

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20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Evening Sale

Hong Kong Auction 28 May 2017