Join The Collection to save, track, and explore works like this.

Richard Prince — original illustration with intervention and paperback book, in artist's frame
Richard Prince

original illustration with intervention and paperback book, in artist's frame

Richard Prince appropriates and intervenes upon an original illustration, pairing it with a paperback book and presenting the ensemble within a frame of his own making. This work engages Prince's longstanding interest in questions of authorship, ownership, and the cultural life of images, blurring the boundaries between the found and the authored. The artist's frame itself becomes an active element of the piece, asserting Prince's claim over the assembled objects and implicating the entire presentation as a unified artistic statement.

🔨 Auction Lot

20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

May 10, 2016

Start the Discussion

Request access to join the discussion

About this work

Richard Prince, original illustration with intervention and paperback book, in artist's frame

Richard Prince appropriates and intervenes upon an original illustration, pairing it with a paperback book and presenting the ensemble within a frame of his own making. This work engages Prince's longstanding interest in questions of authorship, ownership, and the cultural life of images, blurring the boundaries between the found and the authored. The artist's frame itself becomes an active element of the piece, asserting Prince's claim over the assembled objects and implicating the entire presentation as a unified artistic statement.

Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Postmodernism, Male Artist, Found Object, Provocative Mood, Mixed Media, Conceptual Art, Postmodern Movement, Contemporary Artist, Muted Tones, Framed Artwork, Appropriation Art, American Artist, Rephotography, Intervention Art, Book Art, Found Objects, Post-Modern

More works by Richard Prince