Powerfully capturing the paradoxes and contradictions of the human mind and condition, George Condo paints commanding yet fantastical portraits with an eye-catching blend of abstraction and figuration. Rendered in the artist’s highly distinctive style, ‘Female Portrait Composition’ (2023) combines multiple perspectives into a single viewpoint. Pairing well-defined contours with bold colors, Condo creates a sense of volume and emotional intensity—building layers, facial features, and geometric forms that blend in harmony to demonstrate what Condo has referred to as Psychological Cubism. Reinventing the formal language of realism, Condo examines physiognomies and forms to portray the subconscious nature of the interior world and the idiosyncratic disfunction of contemporary life: ‘I think the most consistent thing in my work is the idea of humanity, of finding a way to represent the human consciousness in the representation through a portrait, so that portrait could represent not only the exterior appearance of that person but also what’s going through their mind and what emotional states could be happening to them and within them.’ [1]