Lot 478
  • 478

Richard Prince

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Richard Prince
  • Untitled (Three Men's Hands with Watches)
  • each signed, dated 1980 and numbered 6/10 on the reverse

  • Ektacolor prints, in 3 parts
  • Each: 20 by 24 in. 50.8 by 61 cm.

Provenance

Marvin Heiferman, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in June 1987 

Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Düsseldorf, Kunstverein; San Francisco Museum of Art; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Richard Prince, 1992, p. 26, illustrated (contact sheet) and p. 189 (another example exhibited)

Literature

Exh. Cat., Valencia, IVAM, The Valencian Institute of Modern Art, Spiritual America, 1988, p. 25, illustrated (installation at Metro Pictures in 1981) 
Exh. Cat, Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Richard Prince, Photographs, 2001, p. 46, illustrated (installation at Metro Pictures in 1981), pp. 47 - 49, illustrated
Rosetta Brooks, Jeff Rian and Luc Sante, Richard Prince, 2003, p. 14, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is a slight undulation to the sheets. Otherwise, there are no apparent condition problems with this work. Framed under Plexiglas.
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