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Fashion Model

George Condo

Fashion Model

2024

27-colour silkscreen on Somerset paper

88.1 × 81.3 cm

Ed. / 150 — Signed and numbered, including Printed COA

Location: London, United Kingdom

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About the artwork

Produced in 2024,Fashion Model depicts an invented sitter whose face combines elegant portrait conventions with deliberate distortion. Curving outlines,displaced features and layered color fields create several expressions within the same head. The twenty-seven-color silkscreen gives the composition a polished surface while retaining the psychological instability of Condo’s drawing. The stated technique is 27-color silkscreen on Somerset paper. It measures approximately 88.1 × 81.3 cm. Multiple screenprinted layers build the face through overlapping contours,flat planes and contrasting colors. The technical precision of the edition does not resolve the displaced features; it makes each interruption and change of viewpoint more sharply visible.

Expert opinion

The title invokes a figure normally associated with controlled appearance,but Condo disrupts that stability through distortion and competing facial states. The work uses caricature to expose the performance involved in social identity. Its elaborate color separations give the printed image the depth and agitation of a painted surface. Across George Condo’s broader output,Fashion Model is notable because it turns psychological contradiction into a structure of competing faces and viewpoints.

About the artist

George Condo (b. 1957, Concord, New Hampshire) is an American contemporary artist renowned for his psychologically charged and often grotesque approach to figurative painting. Drawing on European Old Masters, Cubism, Surrealism, and popular culture, he combines art-historical references with a highly distinctive visual language. Emerging from New York’s art scene in the early 1980s, alongside figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, Condo developed what he calls “Artificial Realism”, the realistic representation of an artificial or invented world. His portraits frequently feature fragmented faces, exaggerated features, and conflicting emotional expressions, exploring the complexity of human identity and psychology. Today, Condo is regarded as a major figure in contemporary painting. His work has been exhibited internationally and is held in prominent museum collections, including MoMA and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Tate in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

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