Gladstone Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Skarstedt Gallery, New York 
Acquired by the present owner from the above

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Painted in 2007, Richard Prince's Untitled (de Kooning) serves as part of the artist's continuous affinity for the art of appropriation. In this work, he replaces his standard use of pop culture images and minimalist jokes with photographs of nude models transformed into reproductions of Willem de Kooning paintings.
Over the past thirty years, Prince has dashed from one series to another, consistently detailing the core of demotic American culture with each new approach. He started with the "re-photography" of advertising images along with found pictures of various gangs, continues with his car hoods and moves onto his notorious Nurse Paintings. In all series, Prince offers a distinctive take on the banalities of American culture, each piece selected with uncanny cultural perception. 
Like his earlier works, the de Kooning series creates a fascinating dichotomy that transforms simplistic, found objects into a new image of apotheosis. The idea for these paintings came to Prince while he was looking at a catalogue of de Kooning's Women series; he started sketching over the paintings and added textures alongside pornographic imagery, ultimately blurring the distinction between the original masterpiece and Prince's own.
From these drawings developed a series of large-scale paintings that pay homage to de Kooning's Women. With the de Kooning series, Prince creates a montage of body parts cut from catalogues and vintage pornographic magazines, which he then blows up onto a large canvas. Subsequently, he paints over most of the original images with dark, expressive strokes, generating a fusion of highly charged sexual imagery.
Prince continues to test the boundaries of authorship with Untitled (de Kooning). Nevertheless, the combination of appropriated digital images with manually applied artistic materials breeds a unique image that reveres the Abstract Expressionist master. "It was time to pay homage to an artist I really like," says Prince, "Some people worship at the altar - I believe in de Kooning." (Steven Daly, "Richard Prince's Outside Streak," Vanity Fair, December 2007)