RICHARD PRINCE | Untitled (Joke Panels)

Galerie Maximillian, Aspen
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008

These works are in excellent condition overall. The collaged paper elements of each part is affixed to a wood panel support. All collage elements are stable and well intact. The application of the hand-painted pigment varies throughout due to the artist’s working method. There is scattered stray media and adhesive reside to the work, inherent to the artist's working method and chosen medium. There is an almost imperceptible dulling to the corners of the works. Each unframed.
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“I found the subject matter, which was the jokes. Before that, I wanted to paint but I didn’t know what to paint. The subject comes first, the medium second” (the artist in an interview with Karen Rosenberg, New York Magazine, 2 May 2005).