The Colorful Tailor
2008
A vibrant and frenetic figure emerges from George Condo's *The Colorful Tailor*, rendered in bold pastels and acrylic on paper with his signature blend of psychological tension and dark humor. The distorted, fragmented face and body reflect Condo's invented style of "Psychological Cubism," where classical portraiture collides with cartoonish abstraction. Rich, saturated hues animate the composition, giving the tailor a simultaneously grotesque and playful presence that blurs the line between the comedic and the unsettling.
- Medium
- pastel and acrylic on paper
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
March 10, 2017
Collectors of George Condo
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Philip Guston
American · b. 1913
Guston similarly combined cartoonish figuration with psychological weight and dark humor, depicting grotesque hooded figures and everyday objects in bold saturated colors that carry an unsettling yet playful tension remarkably close to Condo's Colorful Tailor.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
American · b. 1960
Basquiat's fragmented and distorted figurative portraits share the vibrant color palette, raw expressive energy, and psychological intensity seen in this piece, blending streetwise humor with a deeply unsettling rendering of the human face and body.
Peter Saul
American · b. 1934
Saul creates grotesque and colorfully distorted figurative works that merge cartoonish abstraction with psychological unease and dark satirical humor, directly paralleling Condo's approach to fragmented portraiture with vibrant and frenetic visual energy.
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