GEORGE CONDO | Double Figure Composition

Skarstedt Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the paper tone is slightly cooler in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. The sheet is attached verso to the backing mount on all four corners and all edges are deckled. Very close inspection reveals some very light undulation, which is likely to be original to the work's execution.
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“Condo’s portraits… ultimately return our attention to the varied responses that they trigger in us. They confront us with the curious fact that we can feel pity and ridicule for something at the same time, or sympathy and revulsion. In the end, these imaginary portraits lead us to wonder at the schizoid and contradictory character of our own natures. And they leave us to revel in what Soberg memorably termed ‘the irresolvable clownishness of being’” (Ralph Rugoff, The Imaginary Portraits of George Condo, New York 2002, p. 14).