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Untitled (A Traveling Salesman...)

Though the quote “good artists borrow, great artists steal” is traditionally attributed to Pablo Picasso, it could well be Richard Prince’s motto. Prince mines mass-media images to redefine concepts of ownership and authorship, a practice he conceived of while working in the tear-sheets department of Time-Life. In his “Cowboys” series, for example, started in the early 1980s, he re-photographed Marlboro ads, cropping out text to generate close-ups of mythical cowboy figures. His “Nurse” works—first exhibited in 2003—were produced by scanning the covers of pulp paperbacks, transferring them to canvas, and painting over the prints. An avid collector of American subcultures, Prince has also turned his eye to biker chicks, Borscht Belt jokes, and Willem de Kooning canvases. “I don’t see any difference now between what I collect and what I make,” he says. “It’s become the same.”

  • Type :

    Year Made: 1987, Silkscreen on canvas 24 × 17 7/8 in 61 × 45.4 cm Edition of 5 This is part of a limited edition set.
  • Price :

    $50,000.00
  • Category :

    Post-War Art




Details

  • COST:$50,000.00
  • EVENT CATEGORY:Post-War Art

Venue

  • VENUE NAME:Admire Arts
  • ADDRESS:160 Victoria Street London,
    SW1E 5LB, UK
  • PHONE:+44 (0) 744 144 3572

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