Richard Prince Datapoint of the Day

October

16, London:

At Christie’s, the heat was still on for the fashionable Canadian conceptual

artist Richard Prince, whose painting Wayward Nurse, bought originally in

2005 from his New York gallery for $75,000, sold for £1 million ($2.1

million).

November

14, New York:

Richard Prince’s drippy red “Piney Woods Nurse” (2002), from his series

of masked nurses ripped from the pages of pulp fiction, sold for $6.1 million,

almost triple the $2.2 million high estimate.

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