Lot 487
  • 487

Richard Prince

Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 USD
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Description

  • Richard Prince
  • Untitled (Three Women with Heads Cast Down)
  • Ektacolor print, in 3 parts
  • Each: 20 by 24 in. 50.8 by 61 cm.
  • Executed in 1980, this work is number 3 from an edition of 10, plus 2 artist's proofs.

Provenance

Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
Private Collection
Christie's, New York, 15 November 2001, Lot 308
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Modern Photographs from the Collection IV, November 2001 – May 2002 (another example exhibited)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photography on Photography, from the 1960s to the Present, April 2008 – October 2008 (another example exhibited)

Literature

Exh. Cat., Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Richard Prince Photographien/Photographs 1977-1993, 1994, pl. 3, pp. 38-39, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Zurich, Kunsthalle; Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum, Richard Prince, Paintings-Photographs, 2001, pp. 54-55, illustrated in color
Rosetta Brooks, Jeff Rian and Luc Sante, Richard Prince, New York 2003, p. 29, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, Regen Projects, Richard Prince: Women, 2004, pp. 108-109, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in excellent condition overall. There is evidence of light handling to the corners of the artist’s frame with some minor and unobtrusive associated pinpoint losses at the bottom two corners. Framed in artist's frame under Plexiglas.
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