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Richard Prince
Untitled (Portrait)
- Estimate
- $60,000 - 80,000
$68,750
Lot Details
inkjet on canvas
signed and dated "Richard Prince 2014" on the overlap
65 3/4 x 48 3/4 in. (167 x 123.8 cm.)
Executed in 2014.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
“This past spring, and half the summer, the iPhone became my studio. I signed up for Instagram. I pushed things aside. I made room. It was easy. I ignored Tumblr, and Facebook had never interested me. But Instagram ...” - Richard Prince
Provenance
Richard Prince
American | 1947For 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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