![]() Shapes reminiscent of nature are combined with French national symbols to establish various layers of meaning within the picture field. ![]() ![]() Here, a wide range of shapes and colors are represented in the work through different layers. The influence of French Cubist painters such as Picasso and Braque is imminent in the present work and lays a path that already announces Condo's future artistic development. In the 1980s, Paris became an important point of reference in Condo's life the painted French flag on top of the figure as well as the color palette with gradients of blue, white and red tones pays homage to Paris and French culture in general, which had a profound and lasting influence on Condo's artistic development. The references to the grand master of Twentieth Century painting are plentiful in this composition: one is immediately reminded of Picasso's sumptuous portrait of Francoise Gilot, Claude Picasso's mother, from 1946, titled "La femme-fleur", or "The Flower Woman", which is referenced in the present work not only through the botanical elements but equally in the vertical and elongated depiction of the female figure, who seemingly becomes one with nature. Most tellingly, the present work was painted in Paris in 1989 in Claude Picasso's apartment, the son of one of Condo's most important artistic influences: Pablo Picasso. French ecology is a singular example of George Condo's masterful portraiture by depicting the human figure through the blending of Cubist elements paired with his idiosyncratic visual language.
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