Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2013

This work is in very good condition overall. There are scattered embedded paint bristles, inherent to the artist's working method. There is evidence of hairline cracking along the turning edges where the canvas was stretched over the stretcher bar. In the face of the clown on the far right side, there is a circular form of hairline cracking located approximately 23 inches from the top edge and 4 inches from the right edge. There is also hairline cracking in the flower in the upper right, approximately 10 inches from the right edge and 7 from the top edge. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Unframed.
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“Sometimes when I walk into a gallery and I see someone’s work, I think to myself, ‘Gee, I wish I had done that.’ When I have that reaction to something I make, then I think I should stay with it, and go with it. It’s not like I have that reaction a lot. Very, very few times do I ever have that reaction. I remember thinking that if I had seen someone make the hand-written joke and call it their work, I would have said, ‘I wish I had done that.’” Richard Prince