The Doll

Details

George Condo (b. 1957)
The Doll
signed and dated 'Condo 05' (upper left)
crayon on paper
50 x 37 ¾in. (127 x 96cm.)
Executed in 2005

Provenance

Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Exhibited

Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny, Musée Maillol, George Condo, La Civilisation perdue, 2009, p. 163 (illustrated. p. 128).

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Lot Essay

‘What’s possible with painting that’s not in real life is you can see two or three sides of a personality at the same time, and you can capture what I call a psychological cubism’
(G. Condo, quoted in J. Belcove, ‘George Condo interview’, Financial Times, 21 April 2013).

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