Girl in a Brown Chair
For Sale at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Sale
George Condo is a contemporary American painter best known for his signature brand of figuration featuring fractured faces, bold lines, and aggressive imagery. Condo often recontextualizes paintings from the Old Masters, blending their imagery and techniques with Modern and contemporary aesthetics that echo Pablo Picasso and Willem de Kooning. “I describe what I do as psychological Cubism,” the artist has explained of his aesthetic. Born in 1957, the Concord, NH native moved to New York because his friend Jean-Michel Basquiat had persuaded him in the late 1970s. After a brief stretch working in Andy Warhol’s Factory, Condo decamped to Paris, France in 1985 for 10 years before returning to New York where he currently lives and works. The painter’s lasting influence can be seen in the work of a range of contemporary painters that includes John Currin, Glenn Brown, and Lisa Yuskavage. Copied from ArtNet.
Girl in a Brown Chair
For Sale at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Sale
George Condo is a contemporary American painter best known for his signature brand of figuration featuring fractured faces, bold lines, and aggressive imagery. Condo often recontextualizes paintings from the Old Masters, blending their imagery and techniques with Modern and contemporary aesthetics that echo Pablo Picasso and Willem de Kooning. “I describe what I do as psychological Cubism,” the artist has explained of his aesthetic. Born in 1957, the Concord, NH native moved to New York because his friend Jean-Michel Basquiat had persuaded him in the late 1970s. After a brief stretch working in Andy Warhol’s Factory, Condo decamped to Paris, France in 1985 for 10 years before returning to New York where he currently lives and works. The painter’s lasting influence can be seen in the work of a range of contemporary painters that includes John Currin, Glenn Brown, and Lisa Yuskavage. Copied from ArtNet.