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Richard Prince Untitled (Protest Painting) 1990 Acrylic, silkscreen, graphite and paper on canvas. 90.5 x 45.5 cm. (35 3/4 x 18 in). Signed and dated ‘R.Prince 1990’ on the reverse.
Provenance Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Exhibited Catalogue Essay Richard Prince created his first Joke Painting in 1986 when he silk-screened onto a monochromatic canvas a risqué joke which he appropriated from American popular culture. For the Protest paintings, a body of work created from the late 1980s to mid 1990s, Prince builds on his original Joke Paintings by recycling and silk-screening on canvas additional found materials from American popular culture: advertising images and cartoons. These protest paintings have demonstrated his propensity for not only pop-cultural appropriation but the recycling of his own motifs as well: the same shopworn jokes reappear as the subject of these paintings, but in a different context, as Prince’s Protest Paintings take the form of the signs and placards so common to protest rallies and demonstrations. “Jokes and cartoons are part of any mainstream magazine. Especially magazines like the New Yorker or Playboy. They’re right up there with the editorial and advertisements and table of contents and letters to the editors. They’re part of the layout, part of the ‘sights’ and ‘gags.’ Sometimes they’re political, sometimes they just make fun of everyday life. Once in awhile they drive people to protest and storm foreign embassies and kill people.” (R. Ruf, Richard Prince Jokes and Cartoons, Zurich, 2006). Read More Artist Bio Richard Prince American • 1947 While some artists are known for a signature style, Richard Prince is most closely associated with his subject matter: for instance, Cowboys, his series of the Marlboro man magnified between 1980 and 1994; Nurses, sinister yet seductive, all copies from pulp novel covers; joke text paintings, simple block lettering of his own or appropriated jokes. Often labelled an artist of the Pictures Generation alongside Cindy Sherman and Robert Longo Prince has been said to be the contemporary artist who most understands the depth and influence of mass media over life in the 20th and 21st centuries. In whichever medium Prince chooses to work, he stays within the realm of appropriation. Of course Prince is not met without controversy, and he has been on the losing end of several lawsuits involving copyright infringement. His "Instagram" series — unedited reproductions of content posted by models, influencers and celebrities on their personal feeds — sold for upwards of $100,000 at primary market, making for a memorable moment at Frieze Week New York in 2015. View More Works