Did Richard Prince sell a $90,000 artwork to Ivanka Trump? Did he then return the money? Or is the controversial appropriation artist staging a giant social-media prank?

Prince, notorious for creating multimillion-dollar artworks appropriating other people’s Instagram posts, yesterday tweeted an image of an Ivanka Trump Instagram post from August 2014 done in the artist’s appropriation style, and disavowed the work.

UPDATE: In an interview with the New York Times, Prince claims to have given back the $36,000 payment from the 2014 work he made for Ivanka.

In keeping with his actual Instagram works, which come under a series called “New Portraits” and have been exhibited at Gagosian Gallery, the work features a trademark Prince comment on the original photograph, with richardprince4 saying “Nurse Trump,” followed by a few emoji (a sly reference to his own paintings of nurses).

He goes on to claim, in a subsequent tweet, that he sold Ivanka the work two years ago; he then seems to say that he later returned the money, though his unconventional syntax makes it a little unclear:

We do know that Ivanka Trump is an art collector, judging by her numerous Instagram posts showing her in the home she shares with New York real estate heir Jared Kushner with works by Dan Colen, Alex Israel, Nate Lowman, and Christopher Wool, among other white male artists.

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Prince’s stilted wording, “I denounce,” is, as it happens, not only typical of his own gnomic Twitter pronouncements, but is also reminiscent of Donald Trump’s oddly worded “I disavow” remark to a reporter about the endorsement of the KKK’s David Duke, which similarly lacked an object of the verb:

The artist’s labeling of the supposed Ivanka Instagram work as “fake art,” of course, alludes to the disinformation campaigns that swept the internet during the recent presidential election and have been dubbed “fake news.”

Ironically, Instagrammer Cameron Jankowski appears to have had the last word on the Ivanka post. His comment: “Rich prince.”

Neither the Trump campaign, Ivanka Trump herself, nor Prince’s studio immediately returned artnet News’ requests for comment.

Artist/filmmaker/writer Greg Allen points out an Ivanka Instagram post that indicates that the artwork is real, though her caption suggests it was a gift: