George Condo - 20th C. & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session New York Wednesday, November 13, 2019 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Artist Biography

    George Condo

    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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476

Untitled

dated "12 84" lower right
Conté crayon on paper
12 1/2 x 9 3/8 in. (31.8 x 23.8 cm.)
Executed in 1984.

Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for $15,000

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20th C. & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session

New York Auction 13 November 2019