Property of a Distinguished Private Collection
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Richard Prince
Untitled (Protest Painting)
- Estimate
- £40,000 - 60,000‡
£50,800
Lot Details
acrylic, silkscreen, graphite and paper collage on canvas
signed, numbered and dated 'R Prince 1990 RP741' on the reverse
92.5 x 45.7 cm (36 3/8 x 17 7/8 in.)
Executed in 1989-1992.
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Richard Prince
American | 1947For 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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