Gagosian Gallery (June 20 - August 8). 2008. First Edition. 23,5x,15 cm. Single two-sided sheet of heavy card stock. Invitation : VG+.

Scarce. Original opening reception card from Richard Prince's Four Blue Cowboys exhibition held at the Gagosian Gallery in Rome. “The representation of the cowboy in Prince's oeuvre reveals as much about his shifting relationship to the great American icon, and its construction by the media machine, as his use of evolving photographic and digital technologies. In Four Blue Cowboys, the figures are reduced to diminutive yet still recognizable symbols in vast, bucolic landscapes wreathed in morning mist or lit by the rays of the dying sun. Transposed into the world of art, these cinematic vistas recall, not without a trace of irony, the great Romantic tradition in painting”.