George Condo - New Now New York Wednesday, March 4, 2020 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Luhring Augustine, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Literature

    George Condo: Existential Portraits, exh. cat, New York, 2006, p. 134 (illustrated, p. 60)

  • 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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56

Couple Study

signed and dated "Condo 05" upper left
ink on paper
8 3/8 x 6 3/4 in. (21.3 x 17.1 cm.)
Executed in 2005.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $30,000

Contact Specialist

Sam Mansour
Associate Specialist, Head of New Now Sale
New York
+1 212 940 1219

 

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New York Auction 4 March 2020