George Condo - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, October 22, 2024 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Gift of the artist

  • Catalogue Essay

    Including: Comic Relief; Anthropology; Conversations; Figure Change; Cascading Butlers; Internal Voices; Pink and Yellow Sweep; Full Sweep; Heads and Toes; Compression I; Compression II; Compression III; Compression IV; Compression V; Compression VI; Black and Red Compression; Purple Compression; and Parallel Figures

  • 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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387

Drawing Paintings

2011
The complete set of 18 digital prints in colors, on wove paper, with full margins, four folded (as issued), with an additional black ink drawing on the title page, with title and checklist pages, all loose (as issued), all contained within the original black cloth-covered clamshell portfolio with gold printed text.
all I. various sizes
fourteen S. 10 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. (27.3 x 23.5 cm)
four S. 10 3/4 x 18 1/2 in. (27.3 x 47 cm)
portfolio 11 3/4 x 10 1/8 x 1 1/4 in. (29.8 x 25.7 x 3.2 cm)

Signed and dated on the title page (from the signed edition of 100, there was also an unsigned edition of 400), published by Skarstedt Gallery, New York, on the occasion of the exhibition George Condo: Drawing Paintings, November 4-December 21, 2011.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $9,525

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 22 - 24 October 2024