Richard Prince - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session New York Thursday, June 24, 2021 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
    Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
    Private Collection, New York
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • 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 (Publicity)

signed, inscribed and dated "Demi Moore R, Demi Moore R, Cameron Diaz as Demi Moore Muhammad Ali / Richard Prince 1999" on the reverse
ink on four publicity photographs, in artist's frame
each photograph 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
artist's frame 33 x 41 in. (83.8 x 104.1 cm)

Executed in 1999, this work is unique.

Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session

New York Auction 24 June 2021