George Condo Art
American, b. 1957
George Condo was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1957. He attended the University of Massachusetts, in Lowell, where he studied Music Theory and Art History. Condo’s art can be viewed as a multilayered experience that brings the viewer in touch with a psychological exploration of human nature. Through the process of transformation involving art historical language and an actualization of philosophical content, Condo’s paintings create a visible window into the world we live in.
His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Judith Rothschild Foundation, Philadelphia; Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles; Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles; Tate Modern, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Ministère de la Culture, Paris; Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain, Ile de France, Paris; Staedel Museum, Frankfurt; Dakis Joannou Collection Foundation, Athens; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona; the Doron Sebbag Art Collection, ORS Ltd., Tel Aviv; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Condo has been invited to lecture at many prestigious institutions including Columbia University, Yale University, Pasadena Art Center, San Francisco MOMA, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Mr. Condo taught a six-month course at Harvard University entitled Painting Memory. In 1999 Mr. Condo received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2005 he received the Francis J. Greenberger Award; in 2013 Condo was honored by the New York Studio School; in 2018 he was a BOMB Magazine 2018 Anniversary Gala Honoree. Condo recently performed, painting live, on-stage in Anthony Roth Constanzo’s Glass Handel, an opera co-produced by the Philadelphia Opera and National Sawdust, featuring the music of George Frideric Handel and Phillip Glass.
In 2019, Condo was selected to participate in the 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia: May You Live in Interesting Times, curated by Ralph Rugoff. Condo was also the subject of a major retrospective of works on paper titled The Way I Think at the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., in early 2017, which travelled to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark in the Fall of 2017. In 2016 Condo’s work was the feature of a museum-wide exhibition, Confrontation, at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Museum Berggruen, Berlin, curated by Udo Kittelmann. In 2011, the New Museum, New York presented the retrospective exhibition, Mental States. This exhibition travelled to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Hayward Gallery, London; and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt.
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Limited Edition monograph with slipcase: George Condo at Cycladic (hand signed)
By George Condo
Located in New York, NY
George Condo at Cycladic (hand signed by George Condo), 2018
Limited Edition monograph with slipcase (hand signed by George Condo)
11 × 8 1/2 inches
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2010s Contemporary George Condo Art
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Plate 5 Cascading Butlers
By George Condo
Located in Washington , DC, DC
This beautiful print by George Condo was released as part of a portfolio in a limited edition of 400 on the occasion of his exhibition "Drawing Paintings" at Skarsketdt Gallery in 2011
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Self Portrait in Paris Poster
By George Condo
Located in Manchester, GB
George Condo, Self Portrait in Paris, 2018
Offset lithographic on paper
15 3/4 × 11 3/4 in (40 × 29.8 cm)
Beautiful poster produced on the occasion of the George Condo exhibition ...
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2010s Contemporary George Condo Art
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Offset
Untitled
By George Condo
Located in Ottikon, CH
Provenienz:
-Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
-Galerie Gmurzynska Zürich
-Privatsammlung Schweiz
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Late 20th Century Abstract George Condo Art
Materials
Paper, Crayon
$18,000
Mental States lenticular invite, 2012
By George Condo
Located in Washington , DC, DC
Very rare lenticular invite for George Condo's exhbition "Mental States" in 2012
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary George Condo Art
Materials
Lenticular
UNTITLED (TWO HEADS)
By George Condo
Located in Aventura, FL
Original conte crayon on paper. Dated "12.84" lower margin. Provenance: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York. Artwork size 12.5 x 9.5 inches. Fram...
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1980s Contemporary George Condo Art
Materials
Paper, Crayon
$27,600 Sale Price
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Plate 15, Compression VI
By George Condo
Located in Washington , DC, DC
This beautiful print by George Condo was released as part of a portfolio in a limited edition of 400 on the occasion of his exhibition "Drawing Paintings" at Skarsketdt Gallery in 20...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary George Condo Art
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Mythological Figures
By George Condo
Located in Manchester, GB
George Condo, Mythological Figures, 2018
Created for the George Condo: The Way I Think exhibition in 2018 the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, showcasing his signature blend of class...
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2010s Contemporary George Condo Art
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UNTITLED (MASKED FIGURE)
By George Condo
Located in Aventura, FL
Original conte crayon on paper. Dated "12.13.84" central quadrant. Provenance: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York. Artwork size 12.5 x 9.5 inches....
Category
1980s Contemporary George Condo Art
Materials
Paper, Crayon
$27,600 Sale Price
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Plate 14, Compression IV
By George Condo
Located in Washington , DC, DC
This beautiful print by George Condo was released as part of a portfolio in a limited edition of 400 on the occasion of his exhibition "Drawing Paintings" at Skarsketdt Gallery in 2011
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary George Condo Art
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Plate 13, Compression IV
By George Condo
Located in Washington , DC, DC
Released as part of a portfolio in a limited edition of 400 on the occasion of George Condo's exhibition "Drawing Paintings" at Skarsketdt Gallery in 2011. Unsigned and unnumbered
S...
Category
2010s Abstract George Condo Art
Materials
Offset
$2,280 Sale Price
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Plate 1 Comic Relief
By George Condo
Located in Washington , DC, DC
Released as part of a portfolio in a limited edition of 400 on the occasion of George Condo's exhibition "Drawing Paintings" at Skarsketdt Gallery in 2011. Unsigned and unnumbered
S...
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2010s Abstract George Condo Art
Materials
Offset
$2,280 Sale Price
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Plate 6, Internal Voices
By George Condo
Located in Washington , DC, DC
This beautiful print by George Condo was released as part of a portfolio in a limited edition of 400 on the occasion of his exhibition "Drawing Paintings" at Skarsketdt Gallery in 2011
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary George Condo Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Male Portrait)
By George Condo
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Condo, George
Title: Untitled (Male Portrait)
Date: 1986
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Unframed Dimensions: 13.25" x 8.5"
Framed Dimensions: 20.75" x 16"
Signature: Signed...
Category
1980s Contemporary George Condo Art
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Plate 1 Comic Relief
By George Condo
Located in Washington , DC, DC
This beautiful print by George Condo was released as part of a portfolio in a limited edition of 400 on the occasion of his exhibition "Drawing Paintings" at Skarsketdt Gallery in 2011
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary George Condo Art
Materials
Lithograph
$3,600 Sale Price
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Plate 10 Compression I
By George Condo
Located in Washington , DC, DC
This beautiful print by George Condo was released as part of a portfolio in a limited edition of 400 on the occasion of his exhibition "Drawing Paintings" at Skarsketdt Gallery in 2011
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary George Condo Art
Materials
Lithograph
Compression V
By George Condo
Located in Washington , DC, DC
This beautiful print by George Condo was released as part of a portfolio in a limited edition of 400 on the occasion of his exhibition "Drawing Paintings" at Skarsketdt Gallery in 2011
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary George Condo Art
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Lithograph
$3,600 Sale Price
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In the 1980's, George Condo, born in Concord, New Hampshire, arrived in New York, after having been in California, and became close friends with members of Andy Warhol's Factory including Julian Schnabel, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. He collaborated with the heroes of the Beat Generation, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. Of this time, it was written: "His work was governed by the reworking of the Old Masters, in a lyric universe in which the human being is decomposed in a multiplicity of non-human beings merged from his own unconsciousness: 'I conceive artistic language as my own natural reactions, a combination of rational and irrational.' " (denoirmont)
He worked together successfully with Burroughs, which included a visit to Burroughs in Lawrence, Kansas. Condo said: "We both disintegrated in each other's presence and became a third being." However, each retained their individuality as well with Condo contributing a cartoon aspect to their conceptual sculpture of layered images.
Though his work, qualified as a "figurative abstraction", it is quite impossible to determinate a frontier between representation and abstraction, between academic art and avant-garde, between popular imagery and High Art. His female figures are described as ferocious and highly aggressive types and are intended to dispel any sense of submissiveness or timidity.
Condo, who remains known primarily for his cartoon-like portraits has also turned to sculpture with works that include jazz themes---monumental stainless steel letters spelling out the names of music legends like Miles Davis and Charlie Parker. His sculptural works also include abstract bronzes and 32 busts of invented deities, a group of works inspired by the 9-11 terrorist attacks.
George Condo was raised in a family where the father was a math and physics professor. For two years, he attended the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, where his father taught, and taking art history classes, became very enamored with Caravaggio and other Old Masters. He later did paintings that he called fake Old Masters, which had elements of abstraction and unique treatment that got the attention of younger artists. While in college, he also played bass guitar with a punk rock group called the Girls, and landed in New York City because of a music "gig".
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