“The most consistent thing in my work is this idea of humanity. Of finding a way to represent the human consciousness in the representation through a portrait. That portrait could represent not only the exterior appearance of that person, but what’s going through their mind and what emotional states could be happening to them and within them.”
—George Condo
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- Provenance
  Tobias Mueller Modern Art, Zurich
  Private Collection
  Sotheby's, Paris, 11 December 2020, lot 101
  Acquired at the above sale 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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George Condo

Urbanscape

signed and dated 'Condo 93.5' lower left
pastel on paper
76 x 57.4 cm (29 7/8 x 22 5/8 in.)
Executed in 1993.

Estimate
£55,000 - 75,000 ‡

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London Auction 4 December 2024