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Plate 15 Black and Red Compression

George Condo

Plate 15 Black and Red Compression

2011

Offset lithography

28 × 26 cm

Ed. /400

Location: Paris, France

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1,190 € 1190.0 EUR 1,190 €

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About the artwork

Dense networks of black linear contours intersect across the sheet, delineating fragmented facial features, geometric planes, and compressed architectural forms. Patches of muted yellow, blue, red, and pink punctuate the monochromatic grayscale foundation, creating localized areas of chromatic contrast within the overall composition. Produced in 2011 as an offset lithographic plate, the composition exemplifies the artist's signature approach of fracturing figurative elements into cubistic arrangements. The dense layering of marks creates a flat pictorial space where multiple perspectives and expressions overlap simultaneously.

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Offset lithographs from this period reflect the artist's ongoing translation of complex painting gestures into reproducible media. Within the secondary market, these works function as accessible representations of his stylistic vocabulary, bridging his large-scale paintings with editioned graphic production.

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 Drawing on European Old Masters, Cubism, Surrealism, and popular culture, he combines art-historical references with a highly distinctive visual language.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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