George Condo - INTERSECT: Online Auction Hong Kong Monday, March 22, 2021 | Phillips

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  •  "My painting is all about this interchangeability of languages in art, where one second you might feel the background has the shading and tonalities you would see in a Rembrandt portrait, but the subject is completely different and painted like some low-culture, transgressive mutation of a comic strip." — George Condo

      • 2020

      • signed and dated 'Condo 2020' with printer's blindstamp lower right; numbered '17/25' lower left

      • etching with drypoint on Hahnemuhle Copperplate paper

      • sheet 68.1 x 76 cm. (26 3/4 x 29 7/8 in.)
        frame 86.6 x 94.2 cm. (34 1/8 x 37 1/8 in.)

      • Published by Hauser & Wirth Editions, New York in 2020, this work is number 17 from an edition of 25 plus 10 artist's proofs.

    • Provenance

      Hauser & Wirth, New York
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

    • 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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Laughing Clown Composition

2020
signed and dated 'Condo 2020' with printer's blindstamp lower right; numbered '17/25' lower left
etching with drypoint on Hahnemuhle Copperplate paper
sheet 68.1 x 76 cm. (26 3/4 x 29 7/8 in.)
frame 86.6 x 94.2 cm. (34 1/8 x 37 1/8 in.)

Published by Hauser & Wirth Editions, New York in 2020, this work is number 17 from an edition of 25 plus 10 artist's proofs.

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Estimate
HK$150,000 - 200,000 
€16,200-26,900
$19,200-32,100

Sold for HK$252,000

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