Artcritical Pontificating on $1,248,000 Richard Prince Photograph...
Richard Prince Untitled (Cowboy) 1989
Ektacolor print, 50 x 70 inches
This work is number one from an edition of two plus one artist proof
Pre-auction estimate: $900,000 - 1,200,000
Sold at Christie's Post-War/Contemporary Art auction #1573 for $1,248,000 (including buyer's premium) on November 8th, 2005.
Courtesy Christie's Images Limited, 2005
via artcritical.com, DAVID COHEN, Editor (thanks Barbara!)
For Your Eyes Only: 18 Experts Talk with Brian Appel on the $1,248,000 Richard Prince Photograph that has Set a New World Record for Photography (December 2005)
There wasn't really a plan. I've never been included in any photography based survey, museum show, photo magazine. I've heard that Peter Galassi hates my work. That he would never acknowledge it in the photo department at MoMA. I think he’s wrong. I think my photo work is all about photography. But there was never an idea about where the work was going at the beginning when I started to re-photograph images. When you don't have any training in a particular medium you can bring something to it that hasn't been brung (sic). I "brung" the sheriff and I shot him. I killed photography. Maybe they hated that.. I always look for my name in Photography mags but I never see it. Maybe I should have "rescued" photography.
Richard Prince from an on-going (unpublished) email interview w/ Brian Appel (9/26/05)
Read what Leslie Tonkonow, Thea Westreich , Phillippe Garner, David Zwirner, Simon de Pury, et al. have to say about it... [Link]
