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Richard Prince is a contemporary realist artist and photographer. He appropriates images found in advertising, pop culture and social media for many of his pieces. Because of Prince’s use of mass media, some also classify him as a Pop artist. Find a selection of Richard Prince art on 1stDibs.
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Untitled (Censor Painting Pink)
By Richard Prince
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled (Censor Painting Pink)" is a nude figurative acrylic on inkjet board painting by Richard Prince in 2009. The artwork is 35 1/2 x 30 inches and 37 1/2 x 32 x 1 1/2 inches wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Inkjet, Acrylic
Untitled (de Kooning)
By Richard Prince
Located in New York, NY
Richard Prince
Untitled (de Kooning), 2008
Collage with color offset lithograph, hand-cutting, hand-painting and assemblage with extensive additions in graphite mounted on on inset board.
Hand signed and numbered with the letter L (from A-Z) by artist on the front
Frame Included
Richard Prince’s “de Kooning” series is a process of interaction and appropriation with the works of ground-breaking imagery of the Abstract Expressionist master, Willem de Kooning. The idea for these edgy, Oedipal works came to him when he was leafing through a catalogue of de Kooning’s "Women" series. Prince started sketching over the paintings, and, as time went on, he began applying fragments cut and pasted from catalogues and vintage porn...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Color Pencil, Graphite
Richard Prince, Dude Ranch Nurse, Lithograph with Collage, 2008
By Richard Prince
Located in London, GB
Richard Prince, Dude Ranch Nurse, Lithograph with Collage, 2008
Lithograph with collage with offset lithography, hand colouring, hand cutting and pencil
F...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Richard Prince, The Greeting Card Jokes #1: The Fireman, 2011
By Richard Prince
Located in London, GB
Richard Prince, The Greeting Card Jokes #1: The Fireman, 2011
As new condition, never framed or displayed. Hand signed and numbered by the artist, verso. Private collection (UK).
Signed and numbered by artist in ink on interior of card.
From a limited edition of 100.
Edition 91/100
6.25 x 8.5 in (15.9 x 21.6 cm)
Notes:
Incorporating jokes reflective of the “borscht belt” humor prevalent in the 1950's, Prince's Joke works tap into social preoccupations of the national subconscious. Prior to Prince's use of the jokes, many had infiltrated popular culture, gradually losing their original authors to become adopted by a largely oral tradition. Beginning in 1984, Richard Prince began assembling one-line gag cartoons and ‘borscht belt’ jokes from the 1950's which he redrew onto small pieces of paper. "Artists were casting sculptures in bronze, making huge paintings, talking about prices and clothes and cars and spending vast amounts of money. So I wrote jokes on little pieces of paper and sold them for $10 each". Following the hand-written jokes and subsequent works in which cartoon images were silk-screened onto canvas, in 1987 Prince adopted a more radical, formulaic strategy of mechanically reproducing classic one liners and gags onto a flat monochrome canvas.
Richard Prince's work has been among the most innovative art produced in the United States during the past 30 years. His deceptively simple act in 1977 of rephotographing advertising images and presenting them as his own ushered in an entirely new, critical approach to art-making — one that questioned notions of originality and the privileged status of the unique aesthetic object. Prince's technique involves appropriation; he pilfers freely from the vast image bank of popular culture to create works that simultaneously embrace and critique a quintessentially American sensibility: the Marlboro Man...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary More Prints
Materials
Archival Paper
Angie Dickinson, hand Signed/N, Barbara Gladsone, Sothebys & Estate of Vera List
By Richard Prince
Located in New York, NY
Richard Prince
Angie Dickinson (Angie from Untitled Portfolio) from the estate of Vera G. List, 1986
Large Color Polaroid (w/Barbara Gladstone & Sotheby's Gallery Labels)
Signed and ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Permanent Marker, Polaroid
It's a Free Concert European offset print (Hand Signed by Richard Prince)
By Richard Prince
Located in New York, NY
Richard Prince
It's a Free Concert (Hand Signed by Richard Prince), 2014
Offset Lithograph (hand signed by Richard Prince)
Hand signed by the artist on the front
Unnumbered
33 × 23 3...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset