Richard Prince Art
American, b. 1949
Richard Prince (American, b.1949) is a painter and photographer, best known as a pioneer of Appropriation Art. Born in the Panama Canal Zone, Prince grew up in Massachusetts and moved to New York in 1977, where he prepared magazine clippings for Time-Life, spurring his interest in advertising and consumer imagery. He began creating works based on various pop culture images taken from magazines and newspapers, often re-photographing and manipulating the images in his own works. Considered by many the father of Appropriation Art, the majority of his works includes scandalous subject matter and has provoked controversy around issues of copyright in the art world. His famous Cowboys series of 1980s photographs, for example, was taken from Marlboro ad campaigns. In the mid-1980s, Prince shifted his interest from images to text, evident in his Jokes series, displaying appropriated jokes in ironic works. From his home in Upstate New York, Prince created his late Nurse Paintings series, inspired by pulp romance novels, as well as his own photographs of everyday rural and suburban life. He acquired an abandoned farmhouse near his home in 2001, which he turned into an installation site he called Second House, installing the interior with his sculptures, paintings, and his own books; the structure has been purchased by the Guggenheim Museum in New York, but was struck by lightning and destroyed in 2007. In the fall of that year, Prince’s work was the subject of a major retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. Prince currently lives and works in Upstate New York.to
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Untitled (de Kooning) Collage, offset lithograph hand-cutting, hand-paint Signed
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 b...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Richard Prince Art
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Paper, Graphite, Color Pencil, Mixed Media, Offset
Girlfriend
By Richard Prince
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Richard Prince (b. 1949) is one of the most innovative, influential and polemic American artists. Whether you associate him with The Pictures Generation, post-modernism or appropriat...
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1990s Contemporary Richard Prince Art
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C Print
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Richard Prince Art
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Acrylic, Inkjet
Richard Prince, Untitled (Black Bra) - Signed Print, Pop Art
By Richard Prince
Located in Hamburg, DE
Richard Prince (American, b. 1949)
Untitled (Black Bra), 2024
Medium: Digital pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper
Dimensions: 38 × 38.2 cm (15 × 15 in)
Edition of 100: Hand-s...
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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...
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Richard Prince, Dude Ranch Nurse, Lithograph with Collage, 2008
By Richard Prince
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Richard Prince, Dude Ranch Nurse, Lithograph with Collage, 2008
Lithograph with collage with offset lithography, hand colouring, hand cutting and pencil
F...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Richard Prince Art
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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 ...
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1980s Contemporary Richard Prince Art
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Permanent Marker, Polaroid
Richard Prince, The Greeting Card Jokes #1: The Fireman, 2011
By Richard Prince
Located in Dubai, Dubai
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Richard Prince Art
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Archival Paper
Richard Prince, The Greeting Card Jokes #2: The Best Friend, 2011
By Richard Prince
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Richard Prince, The Greeting Card Jokes #2: The Best Friend, 2011
Foil-stamped print, on heavy wove paper, folded.
As new condition, never framed or displayed. Hand signed and numbered by the artist, verso. Private collection (UK).
From a limited edition of 100.
Edition 91/100
6.25 x 8.5 in (15.9 x 21.6 cm)
Notes: Text image from Richard Prince's iconic Jokes series. Signed and numbered by the artist in ink on interior of card.
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Richard Prince Art
Materials
Archival Paper
Richard Prince, The Greeting Card Jokes #3: Canada Dry, Foil-Stamped Print, 2011
By Richard Prince
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Richard Prince, The Greeting Card Jokes #3: Canada Dry, Foil-Stamped Print, 2011
Foil-stamped print, on heavy wove paper, folded.
As new condition, never f...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Richard Prince Art
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Paper
Untitled
By Richard Prince
Located in Washington , DC, DC
numbered from an edition of 150
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Richard Prince Art
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Lithograph
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SIGNED Protest Paintings catalog with UNIQUE hand stickered cover by the artist
By Richard Prince
Located in Washington , DC, DC
Featuring a unique cover by Richard Prince that contaings CD label stickers by Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, and Credence Clearwater Revival, and hand signed and number on the inside. Only ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Richard Prince Art
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Paper
Untitled (de Kooning)
By Richard Prince
Located in New York, NY
Collage with color offset lithograph, hand-cutting, hand-painting and assemblage on inset board. It is signed in pencil, with numbering on the original label. Published by Two Palms ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Richard Prince Art
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Board, Color, Lithograph, Offset
Untitled (from Upstate)
By Richard Prince
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Richard Prince
Title: Untitled (from Upstate)
Year: 1998
Medium: Ektacolor photograph on Kodak Professional paper
Edition: 8; signed, dated and numbered (verso)
Sheet: 20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61 cm)
Frame: Yes
Certificate of Authenticity included
This early, vintage work from 1998 by Richard Prince is part of his "Upstate" series. In 1996 Richard Prince moved to upstate New York and began a new series of creative investigations. After almost two decades of making work derived from images and phrases that already exist in popular culture, he took his camera outside and photographed the banal details of his everyday environment. Although this could be viewed as a radical departure, to Prince there is no essential difference between making photos of other photos and making photos of the world at large. He is always paying attention to what is around him with intense scrutiny.
On one level, the "Upstate" photos chronicle a landscape of economic decline in an unremarkable semirural area. Pictures of above-ground swimming pools and melancholy images of abandoned-looking basketball hoops perched on the edge of overgrown fields suggest a region cut off from the cultural mainstream. However, Prince finds quiet moments of beauty in these overlooked and undervalued features of the landscape. The "Upstate" series typifies Prince's process of making art through the reproduction and displacement of pop culture iconography, often with a touch of mordant humor, an approach that has been deeply influential in the development of appropriation art since the 1960s, and which has invited comparisons between Prince and contemporaries such as Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, and Jack Goldstein...
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1990s Contemporary Richard Prince Art
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C Print
$9,600 Sale Price
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A-Bomb
By Richard Prince
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Richard Prince (b. 1949) is one of the most innovative, influential and polemic American artists. Whether you associate him with The Pictures Generation, post-modernism or Appropriat...
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1980s Contemporary Richard Prince Art
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Richard Prince (b. 1949) is one of the most innovative, influential and polemic American artists. Whether you associate him with The Pictures Generation, post-modernism or Appropriation Art, his contribution is undeniable.
Prince has worked in a variety of formats over the course of his career, yet each of his iconic and provocative series shares a similar approach. Extract an element from the American vernacular culture and position it in a way similar to Duchamp's urinal.
Prince started to work with jokes in 1986. These works were a defiant contradiction to the reigning hierarchies in the art world perpetuated by Minimalism or Neo-Expressionist painting. Prince's works from this series forced the viewer to become a reader...often having to read "jokes" that were corny or not particularly funny and seemed highly out-of place in a gallery setting.
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