George Condo - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Tuesday, November 10, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zürich

  • Artist Biography

    George Condo

    American • 1957

    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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The Captain's Wife

2002
patinated bronze
9 x 6 3/4 x 8 5/8 in. (23 x 17 x 22 cm)
Stamped with the artist's initials, dated and numbered "GC 02 1/4" on the lower reverse. Foundry stamped "kunstgiesserei" on the underside. This work is number 1 from an edition of 4.

Estimate
$30,000 - 40,000 

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

New York Auction 10 November 2015 11am