Lot Description
Richard Prince (B. 1949)
Untitled (Tire Planter)
cast resin on a wooden plinth
43 x 25 5/8 x 25 5/8in. (109.2 x 65 x 65cm.)
Executed in 2001, this work is number one from an edition of two
Provenance
Sabine Knust Galerie Maximilian Verlag, Munich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003.
Pre-Lot Text
IMAGINATION BECOMES REALITY
A SELECTION OF WORKS FROM THE GOETZ COLLECTION SOLD TO BENEFIT CHARITY PROJECTS
Exhibited
Munich, Sabine Knust Galerie Maximilian Verlag, Richard Prince, 2003.
Munich, Sammlung Goetz, Richard Prince, 2004-2005 (illustrated in colour, pp. 8-9).
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Lot Notes
The Tire Planter series 'stays fixed in our imagination, as a specific account of a white, middle-class, suburban way of pleasure and destruction, made by someone who knows that way intimately, knows why its terrible, knows why it's irresistibly wonderful, and knows what we can conclude about art, about America and about a self that has to live with both - from the fact that it exists at all.'
(J. Lewis, 'Outside World', in Richard Prince, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1992, p. 77).
