Lot 213
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Richard Prince (b. 1949)
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Richard Prince (b. 1949)

Untitled (Cowboy)

Details
Richard Prince (b. 1949)
Untitled (Cowboy)
signed, numbered and dated 'Richard Prince 1999 2/2' (on the reverse)
Ektacolor print
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm.)
Executed in 1999. This work is number two from an edition of two.
Provenance
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Literature
R. Brooks, J. Rian, and L. Sante, Richard Prince, London and New York 2003, p. 25 (illustrated).
Special notice
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Lot Essay

The great thing about an appropriation is that even though the transformation reads as fiction, everybody knows that the source of the appropriation was at some point non-fiction, (magazine, movie, etc.), and it's these sources, or elements of non-fiction, that gives the picture, no matter how questionable, its believable edge. (as quoted in R. Brooks, J. Rian, and L. Sante, Richard Prince, London and New York 2003)

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