Richard Prince will give the American Museum his collection of books and magazines
ARTinvestment.RU   11 марта 2009

The collection includes American artist three thousand rare books

famous American artist Richard Prince (Richard Prince) is known as an inveterate collector - not just works of art, as one might think, and rare books and magazines. A huge collection of the artist, which he collected about twenty-five years, could bring millions of dollars at auction, but the Prince has decided to give it to New York. A new home for his collection will be Morgan Library and Museum, thanks to there will be an exhibition of works Prins.

As said by the artist himself, the main themes of his collection are the «sex, drugs, beat, hippie, punk - and just great literature». The collection includes about three thousand books, most of which were issued in 1949-1984 years.

Prince collection now stored in fireproof waterproof room near his New York studio. Among the main «treasure» - the first edition of «Ulysses» James Joyce (James Joyce) to the writer's autograph (the value of this book is estimated at 400 thousand dollars), a copy of «Lolita» Vladimir Nabokov with the author's words, the original manuscript of «Godfather» Mario Pyuzo ( Mario Puzo); a letter to poet Sylvia Plath (Sylvia Plath), written the day before her suicide, as well as album erotic drawings called Cock Book, which brought together Brigid Berlin (Brigid Berlin), one of the friends of Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol).

The artist is actively working on a catalog of its collections. «Sometimes, it seems to me that this collection is too good to remain in private hands», - he said.

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova

Sources: artinfo.com , artinvestment.ru