Richard Prince - 20th Century & Contemporary Art: Online Auction New York Monday, July 17, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Richard Prince, Adult Comedy Action Drama, Zurich, 1995, no. 94, p. 94, (another example 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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Pet Store, Los Angeles from Adult Comedy Action Drama

signed, titled, numbered and dated "Richard Prince 1990 ADULT COMEDY ACTION DRAMA WP" on the reverse
Ektacolor print
image 13 3/8 x 9 1/2 in. (34 x 24.1 cm)
sheet 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)

Executed in 1990, this work is a working proof.

Estimate
$3,000 - 5,000 

Sold for $3,048

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20th Century & Contemporary Art: Online Auction

17 - 26 July 2023