George Condo - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session New York Wednesday, November 16, 2022 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Michel Galabert (gifted by the artist)
    Private Collection (thence by descent)
    Drouot-Estimations, Paris, November 30, 2018, lot 130
    Helene Bailly Gallery, Paris
    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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Property from a Canadian Private Collection

375

Untitled

signed and dated "Condo 87" upper left; signed and dedicated "Pour Michel avec Dear Memories of our FRIENDSHIP Condo PARIS Aout 90" on the reverse
oil on canvas
work 18 x 14 7/8 in. (45.7 x 37.8 cm)
frame 25 3/4 x 22 5/8 in. (65.4 x 57.5 cm)

Painted in 1987.

Estimate
$30,000 - 40,000 

Sold for $37,800

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session

New York Auction 16 November 2022