Richard Prince - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session New York Wednesday, November 14, 2018 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
    Private Collection, Beverly Hills
    Heritage Auctions, Texas, October 26, 2011, lot 72031
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Catalogue Essay

    “I make different bodies of work in different media. I don't think too much about what's in or out of style. My heroes are people like Man Ray and Bruce Nauman, who just do what they want to do.” - Richard Prince

  • 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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356

Untitled

silkscreen, paper and pigment on foamcore, in 2 parts
96 x 72 in. (243.8 x 182.9 cm.)
Executed in 1998.

Estimate
$150,000 - 200,000 

Sold for $225,000

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session

New York Auction 14 November 2018