Trapped Priest, 2005, cast 2006
Bronze. 28 x 22 x 19 1/2 in. (71.1 x 55.9 x 49.5 cm).
Signed “Condo,” numbered of four and stamped and dated “06” by the foundry on the reverse. This work is from an edition of four.
PROVENANCE Acquired directly from the artist; Private collection, New York
LITERATURE Luhring Augustine, ed., George Condo: Existential Portraits, Berlin, 2006, p. 53 (illustrated); J. Higgie, “Time’s Fool,” Frieze, London, May 2007, p. 117 (illustrated); Gary Tatintsian Gallery Inc., ed., George Condo, Moscow, 2008, p. 66
"Back in 1968 as a priest in San Francisco, when he gave a communion a person would come up to the altar and kneel and he would place a drop of acid on their tongue. They called him the high priest. He is still operating today in remote areas of Argentina, last seen in the...
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