Lot 23
  • 23

ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE | 'Antinous', 1987

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Robert Mapplethorpe
  • 'Antinous', 1987
  • photograph
  • Image: 59.4 by 49.9cm., 23 ¼ by 19 ½in.sheet: 60.4 by 50.9cm., 23 ¾ by 20in.
Silver print, printed 1987, flush-mounted to card. Signed, dated on the photographer's copyright stamp and titled, dated and numbered 2/10 in ink on the reverse of the card. Mounted and framed.

Provenance

Walter Haas, Zurich
Private Collection, France

Literature

Germano Celant, Arkady Ippolitov and Karole P. B.Vail, Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition: Photographs and Mannerist Prints, Deutsche Guggenheim, 2004, ill. p. 115. (dye transfer variant)

Condition

This silver print is in very good condition. In the upper left quadrant two minor light dents visible under raking light only. The reverse of the card with traces of a former mount not affecting the print.
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