Richard Prince - Contemporary Art Part II New York Friday, May 18, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Skarstedt Fine Art, New York

  • Exhibited

    Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, EMOTION: Young British and American Art from the
    Goetz Collection, October 1998-January 1999, p. 161 (illustrated)

  • Literature

    J.G. Ballard, Spiritual America Richard Prince, NewYork 1989, p. 43 (illustrated)

  • 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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Untitled (Cowboy)

1984
C-print.
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm).
Signed, lettered and dated "R Prince '84" on the reverse. This work is from an edition of 26 lettered A-Z.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $66,000

Contemporary Art Part II

18 May 2007
10am & 2pm New York