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Richard Prince — Black Bra
Richard Prince — Black Bra
Richard Prince — Black Bra
Richard Prince — Black Bra
Richard Prince — Black Bra
Richard Prince

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.

Medium
Prints
Sheet
Signed
Yes

Notes

From MLTPL New Art Editions collection. Handle: richard-prince-black-bra.

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Richard Prince, 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.

Medium
Prints
Dimensions
sheet: 38 x 38.2 cm
Year
2024
Edition
of 100
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
MLTPL, Hamburg

Related themes

20th Century, Conceptual Art, Printmaking, Female Figure, Appropriation Art, Pop Art, Contemporary Art, American Art

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