George Condo - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session New York Wednesday, November 14, 2018 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    PaceWildenstein, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    New York, PaceWildenstein, George Condo Jazz Paintings, December 3, 1999 - January 15, 2000

  • Literature

    George Condo, Portraits Lost in Space, Minneapolis, 1999-2000, pp. 36, 38-39 (illustrated)

  • 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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Eric Dolphy

signed, titled and dated "Condo 99 Eric Dolphy" on the reverse
acrylic and collage on canvas
60 x 60 in. (152.4 x 152.4 cm.)
Executed in 1999.

Estimate
$100,000 - 150,000 

Sold for $150,000

Contact Specialist
Rebekah Bowling
Head of Day Sale, Afternoon Session
New York
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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session

New York Auction 14 November 2018