Anna Condo Is Selling 27 George Condo Works at Christie’s — and Each One Carries a Private History
A divorce settlement has become an auction story with unusual intimacy. Anna Condo will offer 27 works by George Condo (b. 1957) at Christie’s on May 21, in the house’s Post-War and Contemporary Art day sale, marking her first single-owner auction of his work. The group, assembled during the couple’s marriage and divided during their split in 2017, includes paintings, drawings, and sculptures that were never exhibited or sold.
The sale reads less like a conventional dispersal than a record of a relationship. Anna Condo said the works were chosen during the proceedings, with each one tied to a memory she wanted to keep. Christie’s has described the group as a series of distinct chapters from her life with the artist. That framing gives the sale a rare emotional charge: these are not simply secondary-market objects, but works that remained close to the family until now.
Among the highlights is Untitled (2010), estimated at $50,000 to $70,000. The painting presents a woman in Condo’s familiar, Picasso-inflected portrait language, a style that has long defined his market and his public profile. Rodrigo and the Maid (2008), a sculpture estimated at $200,000 to $300,000, recalls the couple’s early years in France, when George Condo and Anna Condo visited the Clementi foundry in Meudon. Untitled (2001), estimated at $500,000 to $700,000, carries a different weight: Anna Condo associates it with September 11, when she had just dropped their daughters at school. She has described that period as difficult, but also marked by a renewed sense of closeness and resilience.
The auction arrives with market context that underscores the stakes. George Condo’s auction record remains Force Field (2010), which sold for $6.8 million at Christie’s Hong Kong in 2020. Another large painting, Infiltration (2017), brought $3 million at Sotheby’s London in March, making it the most expensive of his 24 original works to appear at auction so far in 2026. Yet the Christie’s group is notable for a different reason: its value lies not only in scale or price history, but in the private chronology embedded in each work.
For collectors, the sale offers a rare chance to encounter Condo’s imagery through the lens of a marriage, a separation, and the long afterlife of shared objects.
