On the market works by Richard Prince - one of the most controversial, but the best-selling contemporary authors

According to artprice.com, Richard Prince is inspired by the culture of his era - its fashion, advertising and so on. - Just as it did before Andy Warhol. And although his work is strongly associated with censorship and litigation for copyright infringement, but the Americans are willing to pay millions for his work.

Richard Prince was born in 1949 in the Canal Zone. The first creative drawing he made in 1975 while working on the very first picture collages, and the next 35 years of his career has not changed apropriatsionizmu. In 1977, Prince began to retake photos of the newspaper New York Times, violating the rights of their authors. As a result, photographer apropriator was involved in a high-profile scandals of the proceedings, and the work done on the basis of these peresemok, became the most famous of his works.

appropriation, censorship and copyright

in the career of Prince's most scandal broke out around the work of "Spiritual America" ​​(1983) - a photograph photographs made in 1975, Harry Gross (Garry Gross). Viewers outraged not so much the fact of appropriation of another's image as the ambiguity of the image: the picture we see the naked, and painted a bright girl of 10 years - a future supermodel Brooke Shields (Brooke Shields). Several times this work prohibited to run: for example, at the exhibition «Présumés Innocents - L'Art Contemporain Et L'Enfance» («The presumption of innocence - contemporary art and children") in Bordeaux in 2000 and at the exhibition «Pop Life» in the Tate Modern (2009). As regards the author's original photographs Harry Gross, then with the dispute was settled without trial. Got stronger on these stories the artist's notoriety a few years to bear fruit: some of the Prince were sold for millions of dollars.

Left: Snapshot of Patrick Cariou Right: Painting Richard Prince of a series of Canal Zone. Source: theartnewspaper.com

In 2008, Prince filed a lawsuit against a French photographer Patrick Cariou (Patrick Cariou): artist borrows his Jamaican Rastafarian imagery to create works a series of" Canal Zone " (the 2008 series was exhibited at New York's Gagosian Gallery). In March 2011 the court ruled against in favor of the Prince: his works were considered secondary and in violation of copyright . Richard Prince is going to appeal, but at this time hitherto unknown photographs Cariou grew significantly in price.

2008-th: a year of extremes

In January 2008, at the close of his exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Prince introduced the spring collection of handbags firm Louis Vuitton. These bags are made it fashionable artist, but here, the pioneer he was not: yes, the designer Marc Jacobs collection was inspired by Prince's paintings from the series "Nurse", but the Prince is used in the paintings of images of nurses on the cover of pulp novels of the 1950's.

Richard Prince nurse abroad. 2002 Source: askart.com

several solo exhibitions and the prestigious communication have allowed the Prince to become a key figure in art and media scene, and a record auction sale did not take long. For eight years (from 2000 to the end 2008) prices of the Prince grew by 550 percent. Prior to presentation of the collection bags Marc Jacobs, created in collaboration with the Prince, "Nurse" sold at the gallery, Barbara Gladstone (Barbara Gladstone) no more than 100 thousand dollars. In 2006 the work of this series, "Careful Nurse "stepped over the seven-digit threshold. Each year, another" nurse "raised a record price at auction of the Prince in a million euro: in November 2007" Nurse of pine forest "was sold at Christie's for 5.4 million dollars, and in 2008," Nurse abroad "went under the hammer for 7.5 million dollars (3.77 million pounds). Last sale distressed owner and Christie's, which are expected to receive a picture from 4 to 6 million pounds, yet just six years, the price alone," Nurses for abroad has grown by 7,400 percent!

keep pace with the "Nurses" and pictures of Prince - or rather, "refotografii, among which the most successful steel shots magazine advertising Marlboro cigarettes from the series" Cowboys ". In 2005, Prince's work is" Untitled. Cowboy "was sold at Christie's auction for 1,2 million dollars (by the way, for the first photograph had paid more than a million dollars), and in 2007 another picture" Cowboy "went under the hammer at Sotheby's for $ 3 million, surpassing the first place in the ranking of most expensive photographs work "99 cents. II» Andreas Gursky.

Prices of Prince could not continue to grow at a pace: in December 2008 a from the Nurses' first dropped in price. After the peak there was a sharp market correction of the artist. In November 2008, New York, just three of the Prince for the first time did not reach the estimate of 400-600 thousand dollars, among them was "Self Portrait" (1980), which back in 2007 was estimated at 450-800 thousand dollars.

Richard Prince Nurse in Hollywood № 4. 2004 Source: artinfo.com

During the market correction Prins (end of 2008 - 2009), his work rarely sold more million dollars, but from January 2009 to July 2010, four millionths transaction. In May 2010, the highest price auction (5,7 million dollars) on the New York Phillips de Pury auction reached Work "Nurse in Hollywood № 4 (2004) from the collection of Halsey Minor (Halsey Minor). Most likely, this impressive price , only 200 thousand euros far behind the record "Nurses Abroad, was achieved against a background of scandalous reputation of the owner of the picture . Since this sale, good luck once again returned to the Prince.

material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Source: artprice.com , artinvestment.ru

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