George Condo - Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Friday, May 17, 2013 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Baldwin Gallery, Aspen

  • Exhibited

    Aspen, Baldwin Gallery, George Condo: Paintings 1993 - 2001, July 27 - September 3, 2002

  • 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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188

St. Lucy Collage

1994
oil, acrylic, colored pencil, chalk, paper on canvas
75 1/2 x 47 3/4 in. (199 x 121.3 cm.)
Signed and dated "Condo 94" upper left; further signed and dated "Condo 94" on the reverse.

Estimate
$60,000 - 80,000 

Sold for $97,500

Contact Specialist
Amanda Stoffel
Head of Sale
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Contemporary Art Day Sale

New York 17 May 2013 10am