George Condo - New Now London Thursday, April 28, 2022 | Phillips

Create your first list.

Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.

  • Provenance

    The Collection of Blanca Sánchez Berciano, Madrid (acquired directly from the artist in 1986)
    Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 2018

  • Exhibited

    Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, Blanca Doble: El mundo y la colección de Blanca Sánchez Berciano, 9 October - 14 December 2014, p.163 (illustrated)

  • 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.

    View More Works

97

Come To Hell

inscribed 'Madrid' upper left; signed, dedicated and dated 'Para Blanca de Condo 86.12' upper right
coloured pencil on paper
31.4 x 24.7 cm (12 3/8 x 9 3/4 in.)
Executed in 1986.

Estimate
£5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for £9,450

Contact Specialist

Charlotte Gibbs
Associate Specialist, Head of New Now
+44 20 7901 7993
CGibbs@phillips.com

New Now

London Auction 28 April 2022