Iconic Richard Prince Instagram Portrait Holds Up

Richard Prince, Untitled (Portrait), 2014, inkjet on canvas, 65 3/4 x 48 3/4 in., selling at Rago Arts Wow, has it really been twelve years? This rasfotos picture is one of Richard Prince’s New Portraits that broke through the static and really made people think, “WTF, is he actually doing this? Instagram screenshots??” Seeing it again after so long, and after so much art chatter, social media mayhem, and legal wrangling, it really does feel like if he wasn’t everything for making these works, Richard Prince was definitely something. The voluptuous photo, the bafflingly intense comments [“The fight for earth doesn’t end until one of us is gone?” What even is that?], the austere composition, this really could only have been made twelve years ago, minus five days. Art is a fascinating thing. 23 Sept 2026, Lot 199, Richard Prince, Untitled (Portrait), 2014, est. $25-35,000 [ragoarts]