![]() ![]() ![]() The text on this particular painting, dating from 1990, reads “Jewish man talking to his friend: If I live I’ll see you Tuesday. Entitled, If I Live I’ll See You Tuesday, it takes its name from one of Richard Prince’s joke paintings, wherein the artist reproduced hoary old one-liners on canvases. “It broke the ice.” Ice having been broken, Gouzer hopes younger collectors will consider buying newer works, from the eighties, nineties and 21st century, and has organised a new sale, taking place on 12 May, featuring 30 such pieces. “It was one of the first times a work from the 1980s sold for more than $20 million,” Gouzer told the New York Times. Loic Gouzer, a 33-year-old specialist in contemporary at Christie’s in New York, thinks we reached another Sunflowers moment last November, when Apocalypse Now (1988) a grungy text painting by the 58-year-old American artist, Christopher Wool, sold for $26.4 million. Sold for 22,050 on 7 December 2018 at Christies in New York Old Crow Bourbon whiskey In. ![]() ![]() Nurse of Green Meadow (2002) by Richard Prince features in the sale By thmnjr, 1 year ago on Wine & Other Vintage Alcohol Values. ![]()
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