Julian Schnabel

Best Buddies By Julian Schnabel

1992

Richard Prince, The Greeting Card Jokes #2: The Best Friend, 2011 Foil-stamped print, on heavy wove paper, folded. As new condition, never framed or displayed. Hand signed and numbered by the artist, verso. Private collection (UK). From a limited edition of 100. Edition 91/100 6.25 x 8.5 in (15.9 x 21.6 cm) Notes: Text image from Richard Prince's iconic Jokes series. Signed and numbered by the artist in ink on interior of card. Incorporating jokes reflective of the “borscht belt” humor prevalent in the 1950's, Prince's Joke works tap into social preoccupations of the national subconscious. Prior to Prince's use of the jokes, many had infiltrated popular culture, gradually losing their original authors to become adopted by a largely oral tradition. Beginning in 1984, Richard Prince began assembling one-line gag cartoons and ‘borscht belt’ jokes from the 1950's which he redrew onto small pieces of paper. "Artists were casting sculptures in bronze, making huge paintings, talking about prices and clothes and cars and spending vast amounts of money. So I wrote jokes on little pieces of paper and sold them for $10 each". Following the hand-written jokes and subsequent works in which cartoon images were silk-screened onto canvas, in 1987 Prince adopted a more radical, formulaic strategy of mechanically reproducing classic one liners and gags onto a flat monochrome canvas. Richard Prince's work has been among the most innovative art produced in the United States during the past 30 years. His deceptively simple act in 1977 of rephotographing advertising images and presenting them as his own ushered in an entirely new, critical approach to art-making — one that questioned notions of originality and the privileged status of the unique aesthetic object. Prince's technique involves appropriation; he pilfers freely from the vast image bank of popular culture to create works that simultaneously embrace and critique a quintessentially American sensibility: the Marlboro Man...

Richard Prince, Dude Ranch Nurse, Lithograph with Collage, 2008 Lithograph with collage with offset lithography, hand colouring, hand cutting and pencil F...

Ads: Rebel Without A Cause (James Dean) By Andy Warhol 1990 Medium: Offset Lithograph Paper Size: 15.75 x 12.25 inches ( 40 x 31 cm ) Image Size: 13.25 x 9.5 inches ( 34 x 24 c...

Roller Boy By Laust Hojgaard Laust Højgaard (born 1989) is a Danish artist whose work blends classical drawing, graphic design, and a vivid imaginative impulse. His paintings often...

Julian Schnabel NEMO LIBRIZZI 1998 25-color silkscreen with poured resin 38 x 36 inches (97 x 91 cm) Signed and numbered edition of 90 Suite of 3 Also available Born in Brooklyn,...

Julian Schnabel Invierno Primaveral, 1995 Hand-painted, 17-color screenprint with poured resin 40 x 30 inches (102 x 76 cm) Edition of 80 signed in pencil and stamped on verso "S...

Julian Schnabel Invierno Primaveral, 1995 Hand-painted, 17-color screenprint with poured resin 40 x 30 inches (102 x 76 cm) Edition of 80 signed in pencil and stamped on verso ...

XAVIER MASCARO Year: 1998 Medium: 25-color silkscreen with poured resin Size: 38 x 36 inches (97 x 91 cm) Edition: 90 Price: $4900 Suite of 3 Also ava...