The Pace Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in October 1989
New York, The Pace Gallery, Sculpture by Painters, June 23 - September 1, 1989
Zurich, Gallery Bruno Bischofberger, George Condo: Sculpture, September 25 - November 15, 2003, pp. 12-13, 108 (another example exhibited and illustrated; installation view from The Pace Gallery illustrated, p. 37)
Museum der Moderne Salzburg; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, George Condo: One Hundred Women. Retrospektive, March 12 - August 14, 2005, pp. 110-111 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Michael Brenson, "'Sculpture by Painters' at the Pace", The New York Times, June 30, 1989, p. C00021
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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