Prince, Richard

Nurse Paintings

New York, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, 2003. 80pp with 38 color illus. 4to with illus. color wrappers. Fine.

$2000

True first edition, one of 26 signed and lettered copies (this is letter “B”). This is the rectified first edition of the 2003 catalogue, published in conjunction with a Gladstone exhibition. The first edition contains two errors: the colors of the paintings are reproduced poorly, and there is a typographical error in the acknowledgements. The first line of the first edition acknowledgements reads: “I’d like to thanks my family…”. As a result of the errors, Prince had the entire edition recalled and reportedly pulped the remainder. This is one of 26 copies he signed and lettered, reissuing it as a limited “Thanks” edition.