Lot 260
  • 260

George Condo

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • George Condo
  • The Cocktail Drinker's Wife
  • signed, titled and dated 2002 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 198.8 by 198.8cm.; 78 1/4 by 78 1/4 in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Oslo

Exhibited

Salzburg, Museum der Moderne; Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, George Condo: One Hundred Women, 2005, p. 105, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is slightly richer in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. There are two very small rub marks towards the lower left corner on the lower extreme edge. There is a short horizontal rub mark towards the top right hand corner. There is a tiny protrusion beneath the canvas to the upper centre on the right extreme edge. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultra-violet light
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