Sentences with phrase «yellow joke painting»
Looking cheap compared to some of his contemporaries like Christopher Wool (b. 1955), a small yellow joke painting by Richard Prince (b. 1949) fetched the princely sum of # 242,500 ($ 405,000) at Sotheby's against a high estimate of # 120,000 ($ 201,000).
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His breakthrough painting, Look Mickey, 1961, is as light as it gets and its themes run through the painter's career: it conflates high and low culture, it contains text, it's a joke about seeing and not - seeing and it is, of course, painted entirely in red, yellow and blue.