Provenance
Patrick Painter Inc, Santa Monica
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Exhibited
Santa Monica, Patrick Painter Inc, Richard Prince New Works,
19 January – 9 March 2002
Literature
Modern Painters, Special American Issue, Autumn 2002, p. 75 (illustrated)
Catalogue Essay
“I’m not so funny. I like it when other people are funny. It’s hard being funny. Being funny is a way to survive. It’s like that joke, Jewish Man to his Friend: ‘If I live I’ll see you Wednesday. If I don’t I’ll see you Thursday’. None of them are mine. I get them from magazines, books, the internet. Sometimes from the inside of a bank. You know they’re just like blueprints that float around the sky and show up on a cloud. Sometimes I buy them from other criminals. People tell them to me. Ministers. Rabbis. Priests. Once I saw one in the washing machine spinning around getting clean.” (Interview with Richard Prince, ‘Like a Beautiful Scar on your Head’, Modern Painters, Special American Issue, Autumn 2002, p. 68)
Artist Biography
Richard Prince
American • 1947
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.
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Richard Prince

My Funny Valentine

2001
Acrylic on silkscreen frame.
219.5 × 175 cm (86 3/8 × 68 7/8 in).
Signed and dated ‘Richard Prince 2001’ on the stretcher and further signed and dated ‘Richard Prince 2001’ on the reverse.

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£150,000 - 200,000

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When Dickinson Shut Her Eyes, no. 1259
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Richard Prince
My Funny Valentine
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Untitled (HALF-EATEN)
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Walead Beshty
FedEx® Kraft Box© 2005: FedEx Standard Overnight Los Angeles–New York, trk# 8675 2590 1103; FedEx Standard Overnight New York–Washington, trk# 8631 3319 4523, date April 13–14 2009; FedEx Standard Overnight Washington–Miami, trk# 7950 0886 1541, date July 26–27 2011; International Priority Miami–London, trk # 8439 1188 5383, date January 11–13, 2012
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Sensation
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Raymond Pettibon
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Richard Prince

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16 February 2012
London