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George Condo
The Grocery Man
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- £70,000 - 80,000‡
£163,800
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oil on canvas, in artist's frame
signed and dated 'Condo 97' upper right; signed, dedicated, indistinctly inscribed and dated 'For Robert La Vigne with great admiration love Condo 6.21.97 "memory portrait"...' on the reverse
36.7 x 29.4 cm (14 1/2 x 11 5/8 in.)
Painted in 1997.
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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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