George Condo - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Thursday, June 28, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris
    Private Collection, Spain

  • Exhibited

    Paris, Galerie Jerome De Noirmont, George Condo – Physiognomical Abstraction, 4 April–31 May 2001

  • 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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Mental States (The Women of Tisbury Court)

2000
mixed media and collage on canvas
152 x 183 cm (59 7/8 x 72 in)
Signed, titled and dated 'Condo 10/2000 Mental States: Tisbury Court, London' on the reverse.

Estimate
£100,000 - 150,000 

Contemporary Art Day Sale

29 June 2012
London