Lot 468
  • 468

Richard Prince

Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 USD
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Description

  • Richard Prince
  • Untitled (The Band)
  • signed, titled and dated 2007 on the reverse
  • acrylic and collage on canvas
  • 94 1/2 by 92 in. 240 by 233.7 cm.

Provenance

Gagosian Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Moscow (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's, London, 25 June 2009, Lot 25
Private Collection, California (acquired from the above sale)
Christie's, London, 18 October 2013, Lot 53
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Condition

This work is in excellent condition overall. All collage elements are intact. There is light wear at the extreme corners of the work. Framed.
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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."

Richard Prince