Fine-liner on paper
USA, around 1985
Richard Prince (born 1949) – American painter and photographer
Signed with pencil lower right “R Prince“
Overall dimensions: 30.5 x 20.5 cm
Very good condition
Provenance: German private collection
Richard Prince is one of the most important representatives of the Appropriation Art movement. The works of his “Joke“ series are well-known pieces and fetch up to 120,000 Euros at international auctions. The Kunsthaus Bregenz (KUB) is currently planning a retrospective for 2014

The present hand-written text belongs to the popular “Joke“ series by Richard Prince, who has been developing the cycle since the mid-1980s. At the beginning, he was mainly interested in one-liners and short passages from the “New Yorker Magazine“ and transferred them onto monochrome canvases or onto paper. The artist explains that jokes, as cited in the present work, usually represent central elements of pop culture and often reveal social attitudes and tensions that would otherwise be kept beneath the surface of society. By promoting his texts to the sole element of (artistic) consideration, Prince is considered as one of the first US-American artists who took a clear counter-position to the currently prevailing art production at that time.



The work is in very good condition. It is signed with pencil lower right “R Prince“. It measures 30.5 cm in height and 20.5 cm in width.



Richard Prince (born 1949)

The American painter and photographer Richard Prince is one of the most important representatives of the Appropriation Art movement and became internationally well-known as a member of the “Pictures Generation“ in California. Since the 1970s, Prince mainly deals with American everyday culture which is literally “recycled” in his works. His famous series are often designed from advertisements and relate to his “Malboro-Cowboys“, his “Nurse Paintings“ and his text-based “Joke“ works which are simply written on monochrome backgrounds. His works were presented at international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale (1988), the documenta 9 (1992) in Kassel and the Guggenheim retrospective in New York (2007). His works regularly attain record prices at international auctions and are very sought after collectible items. Prince lives and works in upstate New York.

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