Lot 479
  • 479

Richard Prince

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description

  • Richard Prince
  • Untitled (Cowboy)
  • signed, dated 2001 and numbered 1/2

  • color coupler print
  • 23 1/4 by 15 1/2 in. 59.1 by 39.4 cm.

Provenance

Gift of the artist to the present owner

Condition

This work is in very good overall condition. There is a very slight undulation to the sheet. The photocraph is archivally cornered into the acid free matte. Framed under glass.
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Catalogue Note

"The American cowboy of the mind is a romantic, monumental pulp-fiction figure... He is Alexander the Great in chaps in boots. He is colorful, masculine to the point of caricature, a license-plate emblem, a billboard, a restaurant chain, a figure of speech indicating rough fun or brash aggressiveness. Abroad he is the representation of America, so deeply is he embedded in our national character and ethos." - Annie Proulx (Exh. Cat., Richard Prince: Spritual America, New York, 2007, p. 284)