It Is Human Nature To Sell Off The Richard Prince Print Separately

After already selling off their collection of modernist houses filled with iconic design and postwar art, Gabrielle and Michael Boyd are now liquidating their vast art, architecture & design library.

a richard prince print of four black ovals on a white vertical sheet of paper, arranged in a way that could very vaguely approximate two eyes, a nose, and a mouth, but not really. selling at wright auction in 2026
Richard Prince, orphaned screenprint from Human Nature (dub version), 2001, 24 x 17 cm, signed but unnumbered ed. 250, being sold by the Boyds at Wright20

The Warhol catalogue raisonné AND the Sotheby’s sale catalogue. Thirty eight Donald Judd books at a pop. Thousands and thousands of books, except, for some reason, the one they stripped this Richard Prince screenprint from: the deluxe edition of Prince & Glenn O’Brien’s little 2001 catalogue, Human Nature (dub version). Why ya holding back on us, Boyds?

a thin, cornflower blue cloth covered book by richard prince and glenn o'brien titled human nature in a cardboard brown-colored slipcover with four black ovals printed on it in a composition that resembles two eyes, a giant nose, and a little mouth, this copy being sold by nick harvill libraries in 2026
a beautiful example of the non-deluxe version of Richard Prince & Glenn O’Brien’s Human Nature (dub version), 2001, ed. 750, with an inscription by O’Brien, at Nick Harvill Libraries

Lot 208: Richard Prince, Untitled from Human Nature (dub version), 2001, est. $600-800 [update: sold for $466, book not included] [wright20]