Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris
Phillips de Pury & Company, London, Contemporary Art Day Sale, October 18, 2008, lot 153
Private Collection
Sotheby's, New York, Contemporary Art Day Sale, May 10, 2012, lot 437
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Paris, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, George Condo: Physiognomic Abstraction, April 4 - May 31, 2001
George Condo: Physiognomic Abstraction, exh. cat., Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, 2001, p. 65 (illustrated)
American
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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