Richard Prince - Evening Editions New York Wednesday, October 26, 2011 | Phillips

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  • 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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Cowboys and Girlfriends portfolio

1992
The complete set of fourteen ektacolor photographs, on Kodak Professional paper, with full margins,
25 1/4 x 21 1/4 in. (64.1 x 54 cm)
all signed with initials in black ball point pen on the reverse, signed, dated `1992' and lettered `I' in white ink on the inside back cover of the portfolio (the edition was 26 lettered A-Z and 8 artist's proofs), published by Patrick Painter Editions, Hong Kong, all in very good condition, contained in original black linen-covered portfolio box with embossed title.

Estimate
$60,000 - 90,000 

Sold for $146,500

Evening Editions

26 October 2011
New York