Lot 402A
  • 402A

George Condo

Estimate
80,000 - 100,000 GBP
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Description

  • George Condo
  • Smiling Smoker
  • signed and dated 06 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 97 by 76.5cm.; 38 1/4 by 30 1/8 in.

Provenance

Simon Lee Gallery, London
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

London, Simon Lee Gallery, George Condo, 2007, p. 22, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the green is more vibrant in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultraviolet light.
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Catalogue Note

“I just wanted to say, “There must be a way to work figuratively that doesn’t end up looking like some boring realism, some boring photo-realism.” The point is not to see how well somebody paints a figure, but something beyond that.”

GEORGE CONDO
in conversation with Thomas Kellein, Exhibition Catalogue, Salzburg, Museum der Moderne Salzburg; Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, George Condo: One Hundred Women, 2005 p. 32