




Black Bra
2024
Richard Prince ’s Untitled (Black Bra) from 2024 is a signed digital pigment print on paper that reproduces one of his Black Bra paintings, a body of work in which actual bras are mounted directly onto monochrome canvases. By translating this sculptural, object-based series into print form, Prince extends his long-standing inquiry into appropriation , repetition, and the instability of the “original.” Emerging from the broader trajectory of Prince’s practice, which has reworked advertising imagery, pulp fiction covers, and cultural archetypes since the late 1970s, the Black Bra works isolate an everyday garment and reposition it within the language of high art. The bra functions simultaneously as readymade object, fetishized commodity, and emblem of gendered identity. Stripped of context and presented against a restrained ground, it oscillates between Minimalist relief and charged cultural signifier, recalling Prince’s ongoing engagement with desire, authorship, and the coded imagery of American consumer culture. Published in 2024 in an edition of 100, Untitled (Black Bra) is hand-signed and numbered in pencil. Measuring 38 × 38.2 cm, this limited edition print offers a concise and collectible distillation of Prince’s sustained examination of image circulation, sexuality, and the blurred boundaries between object, reproduction, and artwork.
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- Prints
- Sheet
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · MLTPL
Notes
From MLTPL New Art Editions collection. Handle: richard-prince-black-bra.
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