George Condo - New Now London Thursday, July 13, 2023 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Private Collection
    Acquired from the above 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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119

Untitled

signed and dated 'Condo 08' lower left
felt tip pen and graphite on paper
25.2 x 22.6 cm (9 7/8 x 8 7/8 in.)
Executed in 2008.

Estimate
£20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for £35,560

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London Auction 13 July 2023