{"id":125468,"date":"2025-11-10T09:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/125468\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T09:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:47:08","slug":"george-condo-is-now-represented-by-spruth-magers-and-skarstedt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/125468\/","title":{"rendered":"George Condo Is Now Represented by Spr\u00fcth Magers and Skarstedt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tGalleries Spr\u00fcth Magers<\/a> and Skarstedt<\/a> have announced that they will be taking on joint representation of artist George Condo<\/a>. The deal means that Condo will no longer be represented by Hauser & Wirth, which first started working with the artist in late 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tCondo has a long history with both galleries. He first started showing with Spr\u00fcth Magers cofounder Monika Spr\u00fcth in 1984, around a year after opening Monika Spr\u00fcth Gallery. (She would merge with dealer Philomene Magers to form Spr\u00fcth Magers in 1998.) Prior to joining Hauser & Wirth, Condo had also been represented by Skarstedt, from 2004 to 2019.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn a statement to ARTnews, Spr\u00fcth said, \u201cIt has been an honor to work with George Condo since he was an artist just starting out in the early 1980s, and to support his career as it has flourished over the years. His first exhibition at Galerie Monika Spr\u00fcth in 1984, one of the gallery\u2019s first shows, cemented his position as a groundbreaking painter not just in New York but as part of the international art scene.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tCondo\u2019s most recent exhibition with Hauser & Wirth was a two-venue collaboration that appeared at the gallery\u2019s new SoHo space, running from January to April of this year. (The other venue was Spr\u00fcth Magers\u2019s Upper East Side location.)<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an email to ARTnews, Iwan Wirth, Hauser & Wirth\u2019s founder and president, said, \u201cGeorge Condo is a remarkable artist, and it has been a privilege to work with him over the past six years. I am deeply proud of all we\u2019ve achieved together, and we will continue to celebrate George\u2019s every success.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCondo is best known for his eye-catching portraits that synthesize various art historical references, stretching back from 17th-century Dutch painting and Cubism and Surrealism in the early 20th century to the postwar era\u2019s Pop art. In a single Condo exhibition, references from Picasso, Matisse, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Willem de Kooning, and Francis Bacon are all likely to appear. In addition to his paintings, he also produces works on paper and sculpture.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tGeorge Condo, The Clown Maker, 1984. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy Spr\u00fcth Magers and Skarstedt\/Private Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tCondo is among today\u2019s most sought-after blue-chip artists. His auction record currently stands at $6.8 million, set when his 2010 painting Force Field sold at a Christie\u2019s Hong Kong auction in 2020, shortly after he joined Hauser & Wirth. His record was already over $6 million, achieved when Nude and Forms (2014) sold for $6.2 million at Christie\u2019s New York in 2018. More recently, his Prescription for the Clinically Normal (2012) sold for $6.2 million at Christie\u2019s Hong Kong in September 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\tEven Condo\u2019s works on paper sell for six to seven figures. The 2025 two-venue exhibition, titled \u201cPastels\u201d and displaying 20 works on paper, were priced between $600,000 and $1.5 million, according to a report<\/a> by Artnet News. That report also noted that in 2024, Condo\u2019s art generated $39.2 million at auction, the third highest for a living artist.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt Art Basel Paris, Hauser & Wirth reported<\/a> selling a new Condo painting, Femme de Monaco, for $1.85 million during the fair\u2019s newly introduced Avant Premi\u00e8re, an ultra-exclusive event the night before the first VIP preview day in which galleries could invite a select number of clients; later in the fair, it sold his Multicolored Female Composition (2016) for $4.5 million. At the same fair, Spr\u00fcth Magers sold three Condos: two for $1.8 million each and one for $1.2 million. At Frieze London the week before, Hauser & Wirth sold<\/a> his 2025 Head Composition\u00a0sold for $200,000, while at Art Basel in Switzerland over the summer, the gallery sold<\/a> two Condos for $2.45 million each. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to his market success, Condo also has institutional support. His is currently the subject of a major retrospective at the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne de Paris, which opened just before Art Basel Paris and runs through February 2026. Previous surveys and solo exhibitions have been staged at National Museum Monaco (in 2023), the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. (2017), the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (2016), Tate Modern (2015), and the New Museum (2011).<\/p>\n

\n\tSpr\u00fcth\u2019s statement continued, \u201cThe major solo exhibition at the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne de Paris, which just opened this month, is a testament to the breadth of his practice and to his prominent position in contemporary painting. It is a pleasure to be joining forces again with Per Skarstedt to represent George Condo at this exciting moment for the artist.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Galleries Spr\u00fcth Magers and Skarstedt have announced that they will be taking on joint representation of artist George…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,79305,40699,85,46,79306,79307],"class_list":{"0":"post-125468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-george-condo","10":"tag-hauser-wirth","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-skarstedt","14":"tag-spru00fcth-magers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}