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RICHARD PRINCE, My Funny Valentine, 2001

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My Funny Valentine, 2001. Acrylic on silkscreen frame. 219.5 × 175 cm (86 3/8 × 68 7/8 in). Signed and dated ‘Richard Prince 2001’ on the stretcher and further signed and dated ‘Richard Prince 2001’ on the reverse.

PROVENANCE Patrick Painter Inc, Santa Monica Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
EXHIBITIED Santa Monica, Patrick Painter Inc, Richard Prince New Works, 19 January – 9 March 2002
LITERATURE Modern Painters, Special American Issue, Autumn 2002, p. 75 (illustrated)
“I’m not so funny. I like it when other people are funny. It’s hard being funny. Being funny is a way to survive. It’s like that joke, Jewish Man to his Friend: ‘If I live I’ll see you Wednesday. If I don’t I’ll see you Thursday’. None of them are mine. I get them from magazines, books, the internet. Sometimes from the inside of a bank. You know they’re just like blueprints that float around the sky and show up on a cloud. Sometimes I buy them from other criminals. People tell them to me. Ministers. Rabbis. Priests. Once I saw one in the washing machine spinning around getting clean.” (Interview with Richard Prince, ‘Like a Beautiful Scar on your Head’, Modern Painters, Special American Issue, Autumn 2002, p. 68)

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