
Weeping and Crying
"Weeping and Crying" by Richard Prince is an acrylic and silkscreen work on canvas that explores the artist's signature practice of appropriation, recontextualizing existing imagery to challenge notions of authorship and originality. Prince layers bold, gestural mark-making with mechanically reproduced imagery, creating a tension between the raw and the manufactured. The work invites viewers to question the boundaries between emotion and artifice, authenticity and reproduction.
- Medium
- acrylic and silkscreen on canvas
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale
February 9, 2016
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