George Condo - New Now London Thursday, December 9, 2021 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam
    Private Collection (acquired from the above)
    Phillips, London, 14 February 2020, lot 211
    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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49

Untitled

signed and dated 'Condo 84' lower right
pastel on paper
48 x 32 cm (18 7/8 x 12 5/8 in.)
Executed in 1984.

Estimate
£25,000 - 35,000 

Sold for £52,920

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Simon Tovey
Specialist, Head of New Now Sale
+44 20 7318 4084
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London Auction 9 December 2021