George Condo - New Now London Wednesday, July 15, 2020 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Private Collection, Chicago
    Private Collection
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2019

  • 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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12

Untitled

signed and dated 'Condo 2006' upper left
pen on paper
29 x 21 cm (11 3/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Executed in 2006.

Estimate
£5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for £33,750

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London Auction 15 July 2020