ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946-1989)

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Lot 228 | ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946-1989)
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946-1989)

Flower

signed, numbered and dated in ink 4⁄10 Robert Mapplethorpe '82' (margin); signed and dated in photographer's copyright credit stamp (verso)

gelatin silver print

image: 15 1⁄4 x 15 3⁄8in. (38.8 x 39cm.)

sheet: 19 5⁄8 x 15 3⁄4in. (50 x 40cm.)

Photographed and printed in 1982, this work is number four from an edition of ten plus two artist's proofs







Provenance

Estate of the Artist.

Edelman Arts, New York.

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2009.





Literature

H. Muschamp, Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers, New York 2006, pl. 58 (illustrated, p. 241).





Exhibited

Tokyo, Galerie Watari, Robert Mapplethorpe: Flowers, 1983 (another from the edition exhibited and illustrated, unpaged).





Post lot text

Another from the edition is in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Unites States.
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