Lot 38
38
Richard Prince (b. 1949)
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
Richard Prince (b. 1949)

Pro Street

Details
Richard Prince (b. 1949)
Pro Street
fiberglass hood in two parts with Bondo, acrylic, flake paint and enamel mounted on wooden frame
overall: 65 5/8 x 56 1/8 x 6 3/8 in. (166.7 x 142.6 x 16.2 cm.)
Executed in 1992-2002.
Provenance
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Private collection, New York
Anon. sale; Phillips de Pury & Co., 16 November 2006, lot 15
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Exhibited
New York, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Richard Prince: It's a Free Concert from Now On, May-June 2002, pp. 13 and 107 (illustrated in color).

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Lot Essay

"...[Pro-Street] was the perfect thing to paint. Great size. Great subtext. Great reality. Great thing that actually got painted out there, out there in real life. I mean I didn't have to make this shit up. It was there. Teenagers knew it. It got 'teen-aged;' Primed. Flaked. Striped. Bondo-ed. Lacquered. Nine coats. Sprayed. Numbered. Advertised on. Raced. Fucking Steve McQueened" (R. Prince quoted in "In the Picture: Jeff Rian in Conversation with Richard Prince," R. Brooks, J. Rian and L. Sante (eds.), Richard Prince, London, 2003, p.23).

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