• Richard Prince, The Masochist #7, front cover. RATSTAR / Shoot the Lobster, 2020. Staple-bound softcover, 28 × 21 cm. White card cover with a single black-and-white photocopy-style drawing: a large hand with exaggerated fingers dominates the lower half; above it a face with spiky hair, wide eyes with star-burst marks, and a grinning open mouth showing teeth. Cross or star mark between the eyes. Colophon text lower right in small type: 'The Masochist #7 – Richard Prince / Editor at Large – David Rimanelli /
  • Richard Prince, The Masochist #7, back cover. RATSTAR / Shoot the Lobster, 2020. Plain white card, no text or image. Staple binding visible at left spine edge.
  • Richard Prince, The Masochist #7, interior spread. RATSTAR / Shoot the Lobster, 2020. Two facing pages of spiral-bound notebook paper. Left page: a heavily shaded figure with dark, densely hatched hair and face, wide staring eyes, a hand raised to the mouth holding a cylindrical object (pen or cigarette), and a blocky body with looping marks at the base. Right page: a lightly drawn figure with spiky crown-like hair, small oval eyes, a simple nose, and a large hand raised to the chest; body is rounded and mi
  • Richard Prince, The Masochist #7, interior spread. RATSTAR / Shoot the Lobster, 2020. Two facing pages of spiral-bound notebook paper. Left page: a figure with long straight hair and a zigzag crown, one large detailed eye with heavy lashes, a small nose with a dangling mark, and a large hand raised to the face; body is blocky with oval marks at the base. Right page: a figure with short spiky hair, wide eyes with star or lightning-bolt marks on the cheeks, an open mouth showing teeth, and a large hand raised
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RATSTAR / Shoot the Lobster

Richard Prince — The Masochist #7

Richard Prince — The Masochist #7

£150.00 GBP
£150.00 GBP
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RATSTAR / Shoot the Lobster, Brooklyn / New York, 2020
First edition artists’ book / zine
Staple-bound softcover
36 pp.
28 × 21 cm
Black-and-white photocopy-style reproductions of drawings
Edited by David Rimanelli

Condition: Very good. Light handling wear to covers and edges, minor surface marks consistent with the format.

The Masochist #7 presents a group of Richard Prince drawings in a deliberately reduced, low-production format. The booklet sits closer to zine, studio photocopy, or provisional drawing packet than conventional exhibition catalogue. Its crude figures, notebook edges, visible reproduction grain, and stapled construction place the work against the polished surface of Prince’s more familiar appropriated media images.

Prince’s practice has long moved between found image, joke, celebrity, advertising, and self-authored interruption. Here the gesture appears almost anti-monumental: drawings that look immediate, juvenile, and unstable are routed through a modest printed support. The title introduces a darker register, while the images remain blunt, cartoon-like, and unresolved.

A small-format publication from Prince’s late-period printed output. The book functions as an accessible carrier for drawings, but also as a deliberately plain object within a larger practice built around authorship, reproduction, circulation, and value.

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