Richard Prince - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, October 11, 2024 | Phillips
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  • Provenance

    Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
    Private Collection, Paris
    Sprüth Magers Lee, London
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006

  • 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 of a Distinguished Private Collection

180

Untitled (T-Shirt)

signed 'Richard Prince' centre right
silkscreen and charcoal on cotton laid down on canvas
61 x 45.6 cm (24 x 17 7/8 in.)
Executed in 1988.

Estimate
£25,000 - 35,000 

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 11 October 2024