Galleries Sprüth Magers and Skarstedt have announced that they will be taking on joint representation of artist George Condo. The deal means that Condo will no longer be represented by Hauser & Wirth, which first started working with the artist in late 2019.
Condo has a long history with both galleries. He first started showing with Sprüth Magers cofounder Monika Sprüth in 1984, around a year after opening Monika Sprüth Gallery. (She would merge with dealer Philomene Magers to form Sprüth Magers in 1998.) Prior to joining Hauser & Wirth, Condo had also been represented by Skarstedt, from 2004 to 2019.
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In a statement to ARTnews, Sprüth said, “It 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 Sprüth in 1984, one of the gallery’s first shows, cemented his position as a groundbreaking painter not just in New York but as part of the international art scene.”
Condo’s most recent exhibition with Hauser & Wirth was a two-venue collaboration that appeared at the gallery’s new SoHo space, running from January to April of this year. (The other venue was Sprüth Magers’s Upper East Side location.)
In an email to ARTnews, Iwan Wirth, Hauser & Wirth’s founder and president, said, “George 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’ve achieved together, and we will continue to celebrate George’s every success.”
Condo is best known for his eye-catching portraits that synthesize various art historical references, stretching back from 17th-century Dutch painting and Cubism and Surrealism in the early 20th century to the postwar era’s Pop art.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.
George Condo, The Clown Maker, 1984.
Courtesy Sprüth Magers and Skarstedt/Private Collection
Condo is among today’s 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’s 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’s New York in 2018. More recently, his Prescription for the Clinically Normal (2012) sold for $6.2 million at Christie’s Hong Kong in September 2024.
Even Condo’s works on paper sell for six to seven figures. The 2025 two-venue exhibition, titled “Pastels” and displaying 20 works on paper, were priced between $600,000 and $1.5 million, according to a report by Artnet News. That report also noted that in 2024, Condo’s art generated $39.2 million at auction, the third highest for a living artist.
At Art Basel Paris, Hauser & Wirth reported selling a new Condo painting, Femme de Monaco, for $1.85 million during the fair’s newly introduced Avant Première, 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, Sprüth 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 his 2025 Head Composition sold for $200,000, while at Art Basel in Switzerland over the summer, the gallery sold two Condos for $2.45 million each.
In addition to his market success, Condo also has institutional support. His is currently the subject of a major retrospective at the Musée d’Art 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).
Sprüth’s statement continued, “The major solo exhibition at the Musée d’Art 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.”
