Richard Prince

Are You Kidding?

Auction Closed

May 15, 11:10 PM GMT

Estimate

2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Selections from The Collection of Barbara Gladstone

Richard Prince

b. 1949

Are You Kidding?

signed, titled and dated 1988 (on the overlap)

acrylic and silkscreen on canvas

56 by 89 ½ in.

142.2 by 226.1 cm.

Executed in 1988.

Gladstone Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner

James Lewis, "Richard Prince: Notes Towards A Supreme Fiction," Parkett, No. 28, 1991, p. 15, illustrated

Rosetta Brooks, Jeff Rian and Luc Sante, Richard Prince, New York 2003, p. 107, illustrated in color

Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian and Jean-Francois Jaussaud, For Art's Sake: Inside the Homes of Art Dealers, New York 2020, pp. 18-19, 23, 26 illustrated in color (in installation)

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Examining Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings, May - September 1999

Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Mythic Proportions: Painting in the 1980s, February - May 2001

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Richard Prince: Principal - Gemälde und Fotografien 1977-2001, April - July 2002

Kunsthalle Zurich, Richard Prince: Paintings, February - August 2002, p. 9, illustrated in color and p. 175 (text)

Los Angeles, Regen Projects, Women, February - March 2004, p. 165, illustrated in color

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; and London, Serpentine Gallery, Richard Prince: Spiritual America, September 2007 - August 2008, p. 121, illustrated in color