Richard Prince, controversial American painter and photographer, created history recently when one of his ‘untitled cowboy’ series photographs (the image featured here) was sold at Sotheby’s in New York for a little over $3.4 million – the most expensive photo sold at an auction.
According to a PDNonline news release, “the record-breaking Prince image is from his untitled cowboy series – in which Prince photographed sections of Marlboro cigarette ads and enlarged the photos to an enormous size. The photo sold at Sotheby’s measures 100 by 66 inches and was one of an edition of two plus one artist’s proof. It is dated 2001-02.”
Richard Prince’s work is considered controversial because of his use of a technique identified as modern re-photography, where he photographs existing photographs/images and then works upon them to create/construct an artwork, combining analogue and digital media. This has raised a debate over authorship, copyright laws and the authenticity of his work.
Prince is also known for his ‘nurse paintings’ series – a series of paintings of nurses created from scanned images of book covers (of pulp romance novels), which were then ink-jet printed on canvas, in a large format, and reworked with acrylic… or something along those lines… to create/construct an artwork.
Some of Richard Prince’s photography is also controversial as it is heavily riddled with sexual undertones.
Check out Richard Prince’s website here.
[Citation: PDNonline]
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