ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)

Lot 18
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Lot 18 | ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
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ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)

Grapes, 1985

platinum print

signed, dated and numbered '1⁄3' in pencil (margin); signed and dated in pencil in copyright credit (verso); credited, titled, dated and numbered on affixed gallery and exhibition labels (frame backing board)

image:19 ¼ x 19 7⁄8 in. (48.8 x 50.4 cm.)

sheet: 25 ¾ x 21 7⁄8 in. (63.5 x 55.5 cm.)

This work is number one from an edition of three.





Provenance

Robert Miller Gallery, New York;

Sotheby's, New York, October 2, 1996, lot 434;

acquired from the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

Janet Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1990, p. 107.

Arthur Coleman Danto and Robert Mapplethorpe, Mapplethorpe, Random House, New York, 1992, p. 298.



Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Robert Mapplethorpe, July 27- October 23, 1988.

Institute of Contemporary Art/The University of Pennsylvania; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; University Art Museum, Berkeley; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, The Perfect Moment, December 9, 1988 - August, 31, 1990.

Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, ATM Contemporary Art Gallery, Mito The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, the Nagoya City Art Museum, and The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Mapplethorpe Japanese Retrospective, 1992–1993.
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