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George Condo
Electric Harlequin
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- £3,000 - 5,000
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lithograph with screenprint in colours on Fabriano paper
signed and numbered '16/70 George Condo' lower margin
image 60 x 48.3 cm (23 5/8 x 19 in.)
sheet 73 x 58 cm (28 3/4 x 22 7/8 in.)
sheet 73 x 58 cm (28 3/4 x 22 7/8 in.)
Executed in 2000, this work is number 16 from an edition of 70 plus 20 artist's proofs.
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George Condo
AmericanPicasso 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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