Richard Prince (b. 1949)

Untitled (Three Women Looking in the Same Direction)

Details

Richard Prince (b. 1949)
Untitled (Three Women Looking in the Same Direction)
signed, numbered and dated 'Richard Prince 1979-1980 3/3' (on a paper label affixed to the backing board); signed again, numbered again and dated again 'Richard Prince 1979 2/2' (on the reverse of the third photograph)
Ektacolor photograph, in three parts
each image: 6 ½ x 9 ½ in. (16.5 x 24.1 cm.)
each sheet: 8 x 11 in. (20.3 x 27.9 cm.)
mount: 32 x 40 in. (81.3 x 101.6 cm.)
Executed in 1979-1980. This work is number three from an edition of three.

Provenance

Skarstedt Gallery, New York, acquired directly from the artist
Private collection, circa 1998
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 24 September 2014, lot 231
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Los Angeles, Regen Projects, Richard Prince: Women, February-March 2004, no. 26 (another example illustrated and exhibited).

Lot Essay

“These were actual photographs, literal rather than figurative. I simply attached the literal, the actual, to what was in fact a set-up, a version of a scene or something that was close to a movie still. I came along and made a real photograph out of what was essentially an image in a magazine” (Richard Prince, in conversation with Barbara Kruger, “All Tomorrow’s Parties by Barbara Kruger & Richard Prince,” BOMB, Issue 3, April 1, 1982, https://bombmagazine.org/articles/all-tomorrows-parties/).

Untitled (Three Women Looking in the Same Direction)

Lot Essay

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