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Richard Prince
American • b. 1947
Biography
For more than three decades, Prince's universally celebrated practice has pursued the subversive strategy of appropriating commonplace imagery and themes – such as photographs of quintessential Western cowboys and "biker chicks," the front covers of nurse romance novellas, and jokes and cartoons – to deconstruct singular notions of authorship, authenticity and identity.
Starting his career as a member of the Pictures Generation in the 1970s alongside such contemporaries as Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo and Sherrie Levine, Prince is widely acknowledged as having expanded the accepted parameters of art-making with his so-called "re-photography" technique – a revolutionary appropriation strategy of photographing pre-existing images from magazine ads and presenting them as his own. Prince's practice of appropriating familiar subject matter exposes the inner mechanics of desire and power pervading the media and our cultural consciousness at large, particularly as they relate to identity and gender constructs.
Insights
Prince hit his auction record in 2016 for Runaway Prince (2005-6) at $9.7 million. Previously, his top canvas was Overseas Nurse, 2002, which sold for $8.5 million.
An abandoned shack-turned-installation in the Catskills, Second House, was struck by lightning in 2007, only two years after the Guggenheim acquired the work.
"The problem with art is, it's not like the game of golf, where you put the ball in the hole. There's no umpire. There's no judge. There are no rules."
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Richard Prince
Untitled (T-Shirt)
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $31,500
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Richard Prince
Jesus
Estimate £6,000 - 9,000
Sold for £8,190
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Richard Prince
Untitled (original)
Estimate $100,000 - 150,000
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Richard Prince
Untitled (Cowboy)
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Richard Prince
Untitled
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Untitled
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Richard Prince
Untitled (original)
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Richard Prince
Untitled (Check Painting)
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Richard Prince
Four Faces
Estimate $1,200 - 1,800
Sold for $1,375
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Jokes
Estimate $7,000 - 10,000
Sold for $9,375
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Richard Prince
Untitled (Original)
Estimate $100,000 - 150,000
Sold for $300,000
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Richard Prince
Untitled (Cowboy)
Estimate $450,000 - 550,000
Sold for $524,000
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Richard Prince
Six Works: (i-iv) Untitled (Adult Comedy Action Drama); (v-vi) Untitled (4x4)
Estimate $18,000 - 22,000
Sold for $22,500
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Richard Prince
Untitled (Hippie Drawing), from In The Darkest Hour There May Be Light
Estimate $500 - 1,000
Sold for $2,375
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Richard Prince
Heaven
Estimate £15,000 - 18,000
Sold for £18,750
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Richard Prince
Mustang Painting
Estimate £700,000 - 1,000,000
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Untitled
Estimate HK$2,000,000 - 3,000,000
Sold for HK$3,000,000
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Untitled (Protest Painting)
Estimate $300,000 - 400,000
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Northeast
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Untitled (Joke)
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
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Richard Prince
OEDIPUS SCHMEDIPUS
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
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Richard Prince
Untitled (Publicity)
Estimate HK$600,000 - 900,000
Sold for HK$750,000
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Richard Prince
Free Love #233
Estimate $400,000 - 600,000
Sold for $471,000
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