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George Condo (B. 1957)
Lot 303

George Condo (B. 1957)

Portrait of the Unknown

Fermé17 October 2014

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GBP 74,500

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George Condo (B. 1957)
Portrait of the Unknown
signed, inscribed and dated 'PARIS Condo 91' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
66 7/8 x 59in. (170 X 150cm.)
Painted in 1991

Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005.

Note du spécialiste

‘You have to be severe with art, because you don’t want to be a slave to it. Why would Picasso take David’s painting of the Sabine Women and tear it apart? Because that’s what you do. If you don’t love it enough, you walk away’ (G. Condo, quoted in C. Tompkins, ‘Portraits of Imaginary People’, The New Yorker, 17 January 2011, p. 62).