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PROPERTY from the pisces trust RICHARD PRINCE (b. 1949) UNTITLED (COWBOY) Ektacolor print 983/8 x...

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PROPERTY from the pisces trust RICHARD PRINCE (b. 1949) UNTITLED (COWBOY) Ektacolor print 983/8 x...
PROPERTY from
the pisces trust
RICHARD PRINCE
(b. 1949)
UNTITLED (COWBOY)
Ektacolor print
983/8 x 565/8 in. (250 x 144 cm)
executed in 1999
this work is unique
ESTIMATE: $80,000-120,000

PROVENANCE
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NEW YORK

EXHIBITED
Donaueschingen, Fürstenburg Sammlugen, AHEAD OF THE 21st CENTURY: THE PISCES COLLECTION, June 2002-October 2004, p. 134, no. 100 (illustrated)

LITERATURE
R. Brooks, J. Rian and L. Sante, RICHARD PRINCE, LONDON, 2003,
p. 23 (illustrated)
U. Grosenick, Fürstenburg Sammlugen, AHEAD OF THE 21st CENTURY: THE PISCES COLLECTION, ostfildern-ruit, 2002, p. 134, no. 100 (illustrated)
The image of the cowboy is so familiar in American iconology that it has become almost invisible through its normality. And yet the cowboy is also the most sacred and masklike of cultural figures. In both a geographical and culture sense of American cinema. He is simultaneously the wanderer and the mythological symbol of social mobility. Even today, the image of the cowboy has not lost its luster...Prince recalls that he only began rephotographing the advertising images after the marketing company had stopped using their famous model (the Malboro Man) in their pictures. "Without him as an identifying factor, it was easier to present these pictures as something other than they were. I think that's the way I felt at the time anyway."...of all of Prince's art, the Cowboy works are Prince's own mask - his self-portrait as a regular guy. In other words, as embodiments of "untruth," they are the most untruthful. Or, as Prince might say, they are the most "convincing"; picture-perfect dissimulations.
L. Phillips, RICHARD PRINCE, NEW YORK, 1992, p. 95