Richard Prince, Angie Dickenson ("Angie" from Untitled Portfolio), 1986

This work has impressive provenance as it was acquired from a sale of the Estate of Vera G. List, the art collector and philanthropist and founder of the legendary Vera G. List print program at Lincoln Center. It bears the original Barbara Gladstone Gallery label on the verso of the frame, as well as the Sotheby's sale stickers from 2001. Richard Prince’s Untitled (Angie Dickinson) belongs to a series of pictures created in the mid-1980s in which the artist appropriated images from erotic movies, subsequently adding text based elements. Gleaned from Brian De Palma’s Dress to Kill (1980), the image in Angie Dickinson refers to the brutal murder of the actress – slashed in an elevator – as elucidated by the printed text above (‘Angie Dickinson pays for her sins in Dress to Kill’). Prince’s attention in Misty Regan is transferred to the actress’s expression of sexual excitement in a close-up from one of Regan’s erotic scenes from the eighties. It was during this decade that the artist focused on cinema as a ready-made source for his art and a subject for his writings. In this regard, in 1985 Prince wrote Anyone Who is Anyone, a short fictional story in which the main character is obsessed with cinema: ‘For one year he rented movies – VCR videos - and watched them on a twenty-five-inch colour Sony monitor at her apartment. He watched the movies alone, late at night after she had gone to bed. He watched two-hundred-and-seventy-five movies that year’ (R. Prince, ‘Anyone Who Is Anyone’, reproduced in R. Brooks, J. Rian and L. Sante, Richard Prince, London 2003, p. 122).

This work is framed and in excellent condition. In original hand made wood frame with Barbara Gladstone Gallery label verso, as well as original Sotheby's stickers.
Dimensions:
Framed: 30.5" high x 24.5" wide
Sheet: 30" high by 22 inches wide
PROVENANCE:
Estate of Vera List, New York
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Sotheby's Inc., New York:
Thursday, November 15, 2001 [Lot 00299]
Contemporary Art: Part Two (Afternoon)

Signature: Signed and numbered 5/5 on the recto (front). See close up images. Bears Barbara Gladstone Gallery label on the verso of the frame Bears Sotheby's stickers on the very of the frame.

Provenance: 

Estate of Vera List, New York
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Sotheby's Inc., New York:
Thursday, November 15, 2001 [Lot 00299]
Contemporary Art: Part Two (Afternoon)

Exhibtion History: Barbara Gladstone Gallery

Literature: R. Prince, ‘Anyone Who Is Anyone’, reproduced in R. Brooks, J. Rian and L. Sante, Richard Prince, London 2003, p. 122)