Richard Prince — I Changed My Name, 1988, Artpost Postcard

10.5 × 15 cm. Offset lithograph on postcard stock. Published by Artpost. © Richard Prince / Courtesy Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York. Very good vintage condition with light handling wear consistent with age. Clean, unused verso.

Artpost postcard reproducing Richard Prince’s text painting I Changed My Name, 1988, acrylic, silkscreen on canvas, 56¼ × 78¼ in. The work presents the phrase I never had a penny to my name so I changed my name. in red text against a deep blue ground, split across two panels by a thin white vertical line.

The painting belongs to the body of text-based works that emerged alongside Prince’s rephotographed advertisements and Joke Paintings, where borrowed language became both image and subject. The phrase performs the same operation as the broader practice: a found sentence, displaced from its source, repositioned as art object.

As a printed multiple, the postcard extends the work beyond the gallery into everyday circulation. It functions simultaneously as reproduction, souvenir, and portable artwork, carrying Prince’s investigation of authorship into another distribution system. Removed from the museum shop or bookstore and retained over time, it becomes a small but enduring record of how contemporary art continues to circulate through printed matter.

Shipping and handling included in the listed price. Carefully packed in a protective archival sleeve with rigid backing.