This is Richard Prince

Richard Prince (born 1949) is an American painter and photographer. In the mid-1970s, Prince made drawings and painterly collages that he has past disowned. His image, Untitled (Cowboy), a rephotographing of a photograph by Sam Abell and appropriated from a cigarette advertisement, was the first rephotograph to be sold for more than $1 million at auction at Christie’s New York in 2005. He is regarded as “one of the most revered artists of his generation” according to the New York Times.

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Starting in 1977, Prince photographed four photographs which past appeared in the New York Times. This process of rephotographing continued into 1983, when his work Spiritual America featured Garry Gross’s photo of Brooke Shields at the age of ten, standing in a bathtub, as an allusion to precocious sexuality and to the Alfred Stieglitz photograph by the thesame name. His Jokes series (beginning 1986) concerns the sexual fantasies and sexual frustrations of white, middle-class America, using stand-up comedy and burlesque humor.

After active in New York City for 25 years, Prince moved to upstate New York. His mini-museum, Second House, purchased by the Guggenheim Museum, was struck by lightning and burned down brusquely after the museum purchased the House (which Prince had created for himself), having single-handedly stood for six years, from 2001 to 2007. In 2008, the painting Overseas Nurse from 2002 fetched a record-breaking $8,452,000 at Sotheby’s in London. This autograph album was broken in 2016 by the $9.6m sale of the Runaway Nurse painting at Christie’s. Prince now lives and works in New York City.

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