Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in January 2002

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of light wear and handling along the edges. There are some scattered spot accretions throughout the work which are inherent to the artist's method. Framed under Plexiglas.
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"I'd been working 10 years and I still wasn't known. So I wrote a joke in pencil on a piece of paper, and I'd invite people over and ask them, 'Will you give me $10 for this?' I knew I was onto something—if someone else had done it I would have been jealous. You couldn't speculate about it. So much of art depends on the critic as the umpire. With a joke there's nothing to interpret." Richard Prince