Priest and Female Figure in Chair

Details

George Condo (b. 1957)
Priest and Female Figure in Chair
signed and dated 'Condo 07' (upper left)
acrylic and charcoal on canvas
63 x 50in. (160 x 127cm.)
Executed in 2007

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/The Lost Civilization, 2009, p. 162 (illustrated in colour, p. 113).
Los Angeles, PRISM Gallery, George Condo, 2012.

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Lot Essay

‘These figures can be seductive and repulsive at the same time. They embody a position that is simultaneously frightening and appealing. This is something that also comes across in the way that they solicit different kinds of looks from the viewer, and how they often look back at us with eyes that don’t match or don’t even seem to belong to the same face’
(R. Rugof, ‘The Enigma of Jean Louis: Interview 14 March 2006’, in George Condo: Existential Portraits: Sculpture, Drawings, Paintings 2005/2006, exh. cat., Luhring Augustine, New York, 2006, pp. 8-9).

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