Richard Prince

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

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Richard Prince, May - July 1992, illustrated, frontispiece (another example exhibited)
Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Richard Prince Photographs, December 2001 – February 2002, p. 26 illustrated (another example exhibited)
Zürich, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Man, June – July 2004, p. 70, illustrated, (another example exhibited)
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Richard Prince: Spiritual America, September 2007 – January 2008 pp. 64-65, illustrated (another example exhibited)

This work is in very good condition overall. There are soft handling creases throughout the surface. There is a ¾ in. scuff mark on the print pictured bottom right, located approximately 2 in. from the bottom edge and 4 ¼ in. from the left edge which was presumably inherent within the source image. The prints are archivally mounted into plastic corners affixed to an acid-free mat. Each work is framed.
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By stealing pictures contrived to represent the "real world" (but which sell a concept of what we should want the real world to be) and presenting identical versions of them, Prince puts into play a dizzying strategy that challenges the distinction between truth and fiction... In effect Prince gives the mass-produced, anonymously created pictures a new life, assigning them an aura they had no hopes of achieving otherwise.
(Nancy Spector, Richard Prince, New York, 2008, p. 28)