"It was time to pay homage to an artist I really like. Some people worship at the altar—I believe in de Kooning."
—Richard Prince
- Provenance
  Gladstone Gallery, New York
  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 from a Private Collection, California

Richard Prince

Untitled (de Kooning)

signed and dated "Richard Prince 2005" on the reverse
collage, acrylic and oil crayon on canvas
56 x 47 7/8 in. (142.2 x 121.6 cm)
Executed in 2005.

Estimate
$250,000 - 350,000

Contact Specialist

Rebekah Bowling
Head of Day Sale, Afternoon Session
New York

New York Auction 24 June 2021