"A woman is something you can glorify, you can be horrified by, you can be paranoid in front of, you can love, you can hate." So says painter George Condo, not the first artist to have tackled the subject of Woman and certainly not the last. Nevertheless, Condo's particular brand of cartoonish figurative painting, with its equal debts to Surrealism, Pop Art, and painterly abstraction, has gone a long way to pushing the means through which Woman might be represented. Herewith are One Hundred Women, drawn, painted, and sculpted by the American artist--some of them nudes, some of them portraits, some of them part of large-scale art-historical collages.

American painter George Condo, who was born in New Hampshire in 1957,has occupied a prominent position in the Western art scene from Cologne to New York for more than twenty years. He regularly succeeds in surpris-ing viewers with his grotesque, often tradition-conscious, and almost clas-sically Surrealistic paintings. Condo's own models and partners in dialogue range from Goya and Velazquez to Picasso and Warhol, in whose Factory he earned his living for a brief period in the early eighties. Along with Jean-Michel Basauiat, Keith Haring, and Julian Schnabel, he was instrumental in the international revival of painting after 1982. This retrospective publica-tion focuses on Condo's favorite subject: women. Featuring some fifty paint-ings, forty drawings, and five sculptures, the book presents a motif that appears in various forms in his art--in nudes, portraits, and art-historical collages. Apart from Picasso and Matisse, no other twentieth-century artist has dealt with this theme as intensely and imaginatively as George Condo.

Introduction

Stacey Schmidt

Margrit Brehm

Thomas Kellein / George Condo

Paintings

Sculptures

Drawings

Sketchbooks

Solo Exibitions

Selected Bibliography