RICHARD PRINCE — Tell Me Everything, 1987 / Spiritual America, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2007

Museum postcard, Richard Prince, Tell Me Everything, 1987. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2007. Offset-printed on card stock, 15.2 × 10.8 cm. Colour artwork reproduction to recto; printed artwork credit, barcode, Guggenheim Museum logo, and “Printed in USA” to verso. Reproduces Tell Me Everything, 1987, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 56 × 48 inches. Skarstedt Collection, New York; courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York.

Issued by the Guggenheim in 2007 in connection with Prince’s Spiritual America exhibition. The card reproduces one of Prince’s Joke paintings: borrowed comedy language — “I went to see a psychiatrist. He said, ‘Tell me everything.’ I did, and now he’s doing my act.” — transferred onto a flat ochre monochrome painted surface, then returned here to small-scale museum circulation.

A compact printed support for a practice built around repetition, appropriation, authorship, and American popular language. The joke becomes painting. The painting becomes postcard. The postcard becomes evidence of institutional circulation.

Condition: Good / very good. Light handling wear, minor surface marks, and small age spots to verso. Ships flat with protective backing; UK and international shipping available.