Richard Prince

Richard Prince ( born 1949 in Panama Canal Zone ) is an American painter and photographer.

He is a representative of Appropriation Art

The Ellen Stragow Gallery in New York enabled the artist in 1976 his first solo exhibition.

Prince is concerned mainly with the trivial myths of American everyday culture. He often used advertisements from magazines, which he photographed and published with partially recomposed, granularity, or color again. He referred to this way of working as " refotografieren ".

His best known work is the 1980-1987 series made "Cowboys ", which consists of photographed excerpts from Marlboro ads. The image Untitled ( Cowboy ) was at Christie 's New York U.S. $ auctioned at a price of more than 1 million in 2005. In November 2007, was sold at auction at Sotheby's in New York another picture from the same series even for the record price of $ 3.4 million and was the most expensive ever sold single photo.

His works of painting sit down since the mid- 1980s with jokes ( Jokes) apart, he writes either without any addition to monochrome canvases primed or enhanced with drawings, paintings and cartoons.

In the following years, other series with the designations Car Hoods, Check Paintings and Nurse Paintings. An example from the last series is "Hollywood Nurse # 4" from the year 2004, which was auctioned in New York in 2010 and "Very Private Nurse # 1".

Prince took in 1988 at the Venice Biennale and in 1992 at the documenta 9 in part.

He lives in New York.

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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Deichtorhallen Kunsthalle Wien Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) Integrated Authority File
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