George Condo - New Now London Wednesday, April 10, 2019 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Le Case D'Arte, Milan
    Private Collection
    Christie's, South Kensington, 23 September 2015, lot 313
    Private Collection
    Auctionata, online, 5 December 2016, lot 21
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • 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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Untitled

signed and dated 'Condo '85' on the reverse
watercolour on paper
28 x 20.6 cm (11 x 8 1/8 in.)
Executed in 1985.

Estimate
£6,000 - 8,000 

Sold for £22,500

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London Auction 11 April 2019