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George Condo

Plate 18 Parallel Figures

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

Published in 2011, the composition presents a dense arrangement of multiple figures rendered in a linear, fragmented style on a muted grey and brownish ground. Distinct facial features, overlapping geometries, and skewed perspectives characterize the group, evoking classical portraiture traditions filtered through a contemporary lens. The frieze-like layout places various character types side by side, utilizing minimal color accents in yellow, blue, and orange against neutral washes to articulate form and outline.

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This print demonstrates how graphic media can effectively translate the dense psychological portraiture characteristic of the artist's large-scale canvases into a reproducible format. Within the broader market for contemporary editions, such works occupy an accessible tier while maintaining a direct conceptual link to the artist's overarching painting practice.

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 Drawing on European Old Masters, Cubism, Surrealism, and popular culture, he combines art-historical references with a highly distinctive visual language.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