From the mail-order car hoods that he first started painting and hanging in the late 1980s to evoke Ad Reinhardt or Mark Rothko (“They were really minimal, and I don’t think anybody got them,” he said), Mr. Prince progressed to appropriating heftier chunks of automotive anatomy, making sarcophaguslike sculptures crowned with air scoops, usually left with the appearance of being only partly primed and spackled with body-shop Bondo compound.