Lot 161
  • 161

George Condo

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • George Condo
  • French Maid Variation
  • signed, titled and dated 05 on the reverse

  • oil on canvas
  • 114.3 by 96.3cm.; 45 by 38in.

Provenance

Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 2006

Exhibited

Brussels, Xavier Hufkens Gallery; New York, Luhring Augustine, George Condo: Existential Portraits, 2006, p. 37, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultra-violet light.
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Catalogue Note

"I wanted to capture the characters in these paintings at the extreme height of whatever moment they're in - in the static moment of chaos – and to picture them as abstract compositions that are set in destitute places and isolated rooms. Everything takes place in a relatively impoverished kind of situation."
The Artist cited in an interview with Ralph Rugoff, Exhibition Catalogue, New York, Luhring Augustine, George Condo: Existential Portraits, 2006, p. 8