Lot 24
  • 24

Richard Prince

Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 USD
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Description

  • Richard Prince
  • The House
  • signed, titled and dated 2007 on the reverse; inscribed THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS on the overlap
  • acrylic and paper collage on canvas
  • 78 by 81 in. 198.1 by 205.7 cm.

Provenance

Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2008

Condition

This painting is in excellent condition. Please contact the Contemporary Art Department at +1 (212) 606-7254 for the report prepared by Terrence Mahon. The canvas is not framed.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
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Catalogue Note

 “That’s the way we want to look. To be pictured. A portrait….Maybe it’s a kind of stupid desire. Passion. Is passion what we are? Is that what we are in pictures? Is what we are in pictures almost real? Maybe it’s become the ‘most’ real thing. I mean, the picture I take has already been taken. I take it again. My picture is seamless. No cuts. No scissors. The camera as electronic scissors. It makes the magazine picture a photograph. The photograph is ‘close’. It’s real close. Close to the real thing.”

Jeff Rian in conversation with Richard Prince in Rosetta Brooks, et al., Richard Prince, London 2003, p.16