Untitled (two women, two men, in three-quarter profile)

Details

Richard Prince (b. 1949)
Untitled (two women, two men, in three-quarter profile)
each signed, numbered and dated 'R Prince 1980 5/10' (on the reverse)
four Ektacolor prints
each image: 16 x 23¾in. (40.6 x 60.3cm.)
Executed in 1980, this work is number five from an edition of ten plus two artist proofs

Provenance

Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York.
Skarstedt Fine Art, New York.

Literature

B. Wallis (ed.), Richard Prince, New York 1988 (another from the edition illustrated, pp. 23-24).
Spiritual America-Richard Prince, exh. cat., IVAM, Valencia 1989 (another from the edition illustrated, pp. 60-61).
Selected Works from the Early Eighties, Sammlung K-raum Daxer, Munich 1992 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 17).
H. Cantz, Richard Prince Photographs, Basel 2002 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 56).

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Lot Essay

"In the early 80s' I didn't have the subject matter for paintings. I didn't have the 'jokes' until 1986. What I did have was images. I was working at Time Life and was surrounded by magazines. I wanted to present the images I saw in these magazines as naturally as when they first appeared. Making a photograph of them seemed the best way to do it. I tore up the magazines and re-photographed the images. What I put out was a real photograph' (Richard Prince, quoted in interview with Steve Lafreniere, in Artforum, March 2003).

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