Richard Prince
Treading a thin line between satire and subversion, Richard Prince’s art seeks to disorient its audience with a sense of pseudo-familiarity. Foraging from photographs, billboards, and pulp fiction—the latter thanks to the artist’s ardent bibliophilic tendencies—Prince’s work destabilises our notions of authenticity and authorship. When taken against the wider context of Prince’s ‘re-photography’ techniques,
2010
Richard Prince's 2010 work on inkjet and acrylic canvas explores themes of appropriation and authenticity through re-photographed imagery from billboards and pulp fiction. The piece destabilizes notions of originality through Prince's characteristic subversive techniques.
- Medium
- inkjet and acrylic on canvas
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale
May 26, 2019
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