The Smoking Sailor

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George Condo (b. 1957)
The Smoking Sailor
signed and dated 'Condo 07' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
50 1/8 x 42in. (127.4 x 106.7cm.)
Painted in 2007

来源

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

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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'George Condo makes frequent reference to the works of Velazquez and Manet, but also to Greuze and Fragonard, Delacroix and Goya, and repeatedly to Picasso. What interests him are how paintings function, how illusions are created, and how stories are told. Yet however important this reference to tradition is, it does not determine the primary appearance of his works. Attention is what Condo's figures initially demand, located as they are between the grotesque and the comic, protagonists caught between comedy and tragedy.' (M. Brehm, 'Tradition as Temptation. An Approach to the 'George Condo Method'', in T. Kellein, George Condo: One Hundred Women, exh. cat., Salzburg, Museum der Moderne, 2005, pp. 19-20).