C-Print
USA, 2006
Richard Prince (b. 1949) – US-American painter and photographer
Signed verso in black pen
Numbered verso in black pen ‘48/60’
Special edition Texte zur Kunst no. 64
Dimensions: 40 x 50.2 cm
Very good condition
Provenance: German private collection
Richard Prince consciously makes his naïve paintings collide with the actually depicted; the photograph ‘Madame Butterfly’ by Richard Prince was sold for more than 12,000 Euros at an auction at Nagel in Munich in 2007

‘Madame Butterfly’ was created by the US-American artist Richard Prince (b. 1949) in 2006 as special edition for Texte zur Kunst (no. 64). The work is based on a collage, where Prince has painted over an image from a porn magazine with the outlines of a skull and a butterfly. The photograph shows a young woman, who is lying on her back on a stool with spread legs. Prince has turned the image by ninety degrees, and so her body posture appears strangely distort. Prince derives his inspiration from advertisement, pornography and lifestyle magazines.

The edition is verso signed and numbered ‘48/60’. The photograph is in very good condition with minor marginal belmishes. The dimensions of the photograph are 40 x 50.2 cm.



Richard Prince

Richard Prince was born in 1949 and is a representative of Appropriation Art, which is associated with concept art. Prince first solo exhibition was 1966 in the Ellen Stragow Gallery in New York. He mainly deals with everyday legends of the American culture and refers to his work as ‘rephotography’s’. His most famous series ‘Cowboys’ were created in the period from 1980 to 1987 and consist of Marlboro ads, which were photographed by the artist. In 2007 a print o this series was sold by Sotheby's in New York for a record price of 3.4 million Dollars, which makes it the most expensive sold photo ever.

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