Richard Prince - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, April 16, 2024 | Phillips

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 16 - 17 April

  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the artist
    Christie's New York, Post-War and Contemporary Art, November 11, 2004, lot 318
    Private Collection

  • Literature

    R. Brooks, I. Ran, L. Sante, Richard Prince, London 2003, p. 54

  • 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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Property from a Distinguished American Collection

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Richard Prince

Untitled (Sunset)

1981
Ektacolor print in colors, on photo paper affixed to backing board, with full margins.
I. 13 1/4 x 19 3/8 in. (33.7 x 49.2 cm)
S. 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed, dated and annotated 'ap' in black ink on the reverse of the backing board (an artist's proof, the edition was 5), framed.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 16 - 17 April