Richard Prince - Evening & Day Editions London Wednesday, January 21, 2015 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 22 January 2015 2pm & 6pm

  • 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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Richard Prince

Untitled

2011
The complete set of three foil-stamped prints, on heavy wove greeting cards, the cards loose (as issued), with accompanying book,
20.6 x 29.2 cm (8 1/8 x 11 1/2 in.)
each signed and numbered 100/100 in black pen on the interior of the card, further numbered in pencil on the original envelope, and in black ink on the portfolio, co-published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany and Foggy Notion Books, New York, all contained in original brown card portfolio.

Estimate
£1,000 - 1,500 †

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 22 January 2015 2pm & 6pm