Richard Prince - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Wednesday, October 16, 2013 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the artist

  • 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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Two works: Untitled (from Adult, Comedy Action Drama)

1995
colour photograph
each image 32.4 x 48.7 cm. (12 3/4 x 19 1/8 in.), each sheet 40.5 x 50.5 cm. (15 7/8 x 19 7/8 in.)
Each signed, dated and numbered 'R Prince AP/26 1995' lower right margin. Each work is in artist's proof from the overall edition of 26.

Estimate
£7,000 - 9,000 

Sold for £8,750

Contact Specialist
Henry Highley
Head of Sale
hhighley@phillips.com
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Contemporary Art Day Sale

London 17 October 2013