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George Condo

New Now Day Sale
29.02.2016
Schätzpreis
150.000 $ - 200.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
149.000 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 137

George Condo

New Now Day Sale
29.02.2016
Schätzpreis
150.000 $ - 200.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
149.000 $
Beschreibung:

Property from a Private Collection, Chicago George Condo Expanding Color Painting 1987 oil on canvas 98 1/4 x 78 1/2 in. (249.6 x 199.4 cm) Signed, inscribed and dated "the days of color Condo 87" on the reverse. Further signed "Condo" on the stretcher.
Provenance Pace Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1988 Exhibited New York, Pace Gallery, George Condo Paintings and Drawings, March 11 – April 2, 1988, no. 12 (illustrated) Literature Roberta Smith, Condo Creates a Future With Layers of Nostalgia, New York Times, March 1988 Holland Cotter, George Condo at Pace, Art in America, May 1988 (illustrated) Catalogue Essay "Expanding Color Painting is an extremely attractive mélange of motifs recalling those in Gorky's late paintings, and it even approximates the chromatic tonalities of The Betrothal II.” Holland Cotter, "George Condo at Pace," Art in America, May 1988 As George Condo has cited “abstractions are pictures of the artist's mind” and the present lot, Expanding Color Painting, 1987 is an example of Condo’s most vivid imagination. Bulbous, natural forms rendered in primary reds, yellow, greens and blues seem to grow upward from the lower quadrant of the composition. Swirling like colorful ivy, crawling across the creamy background Condo has created an intricate pattern of delicate modular structures emerging at various stages of formation, slowly rising to the surface of the composition. A blend of historical references can be seen, from Gorky’s breakthrough series entitled Garden in Sochi to Joan Miró’s surrealist shapes, Condo places himself at the crux of New York’s 1980’s painterly revival. The philosopher Félix Guattari, who lived on the Rue de Condé in the same building as Condo in the 1980’s when Expanding Color Painting was executed describes “a very specific 'Condo effect,’” stating that Condo “sacrifices everything to this effect, particularly pictorial structure, which he systematically destroys, thus removing a protective guardrail, a frame of reference which might reassure the viewer, who is denied access to a stable set of meanings." Expanding Color Painting, 1987 lies at the heart of Condo’s practice, a dive into the depths of what the artist refers to as “psychological cubism.” Read More

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 137
Auktion:
Datum:
29.02.2016
Auktionshaus:
Phillips
New York
Beschreibung:

Property from a Private Collection, Chicago George Condo Expanding Color Painting 1987 oil on canvas 98 1/4 x 78 1/2 in. (249.6 x 199.4 cm) Signed, inscribed and dated "the days of color Condo 87" on the reverse. Further signed "Condo" on the stretcher.
Provenance Pace Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1988 Exhibited New York, Pace Gallery, George Condo Paintings and Drawings, March 11 – April 2, 1988, no. 12 (illustrated) Literature Roberta Smith, Condo Creates a Future With Layers of Nostalgia, New York Times, March 1988 Holland Cotter, George Condo at Pace, Art in America, May 1988 (illustrated) Catalogue Essay "Expanding Color Painting is an extremely attractive mélange of motifs recalling those in Gorky's late paintings, and it even approximates the chromatic tonalities of The Betrothal II.” Holland Cotter, "George Condo at Pace," Art in America, May 1988 As George Condo has cited “abstractions are pictures of the artist's mind” and the present lot, Expanding Color Painting, 1987 is an example of Condo’s most vivid imagination. Bulbous, natural forms rendered in primary reds, yellow, greens and blues seem to grow upward from the lower quadrant of the composition. Swirling like colorful ivy, crawling across the creamy background Condo has created an intricate pattern of delicate modular structures emerging at various stages of formation, slowly rising to the surface of the composition. A blend of historical references can be seen, from Gorky’s breakthrough series entitled Garden in Sochi to Joan Miró’s surrealist shapes, Condo places himself at the crux of New York’s 1980’s painterly revival. The philosopher Félix Guattari, who lived on the Rue de Condé in the same building as Condo in the 1980’s when Expanding Color Painting was executed describes “a very specific 'Condo effect,’” stating that Condo “sacrifices everything to this effect, particularly pictorial structure, which he systematically destroys, thus removing a protective guardrail, a frame of reference which might reassure the viewer, who is denied access to a stable set of meanings." Expanding Color Painting, 1987 lies at the heart of Condo’s practice, a dive into the depths of what the artist refers to as “psychological cubism.” Read More

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 137
Auktion:
Datum:
29.02.2016
Auktionshaus:
Phillips
New York
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