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Lot 426
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Richard Prince

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description

  • Richard Prince
  • Untitled (Check Painting #5)

  • signed and dated 2004

  • acrylic and checks on canvas
  • 62 by 50 in. 157.5 by 127 cm.

Provenance

Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Beverly Hills, Gagosian Gallery, Richard Prince: Check Paintings, February - April 2005, p. 46, illustrated

Catalogue Note

"But what is it about canceled checks? Gathered together under even a princely eye they still make one flinch, like excavated body pits - pretty business-order maids all in a row. Tattooed skin. They have the same stubborn will to live as do supermarket receipts and photo-booth portraits. Like bodies of lost loved ones in makeshift morgues, you keep looking, at some cellular level thinking you will finally come across a check that is your own... Whatever made us think we could balance the books? From checks we come and to checks we will return." - Bruce Wagner (Exh. Cat., Beverly Hills, Gagosian Gallery, Richard Prince: Check Paintings, 2005, p. 7)