Live Auction 15970Post-War and Contemporary Art Afternoon Session
Richard Prince (b. 1949)
Lot 853

Richard Prince (b. 1949)

Untitled (Three Women Looking in the Same Direction)

Closed18 May 2018

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USD 137,500

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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.

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

Specialist note

“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/).