Robert Mapplethorpe
Tulips
Lot Closed
October 7, 03:25 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert Mapplethorpe
1946 - 1989
Tulips
unique platinum print, signed, titled, dated, and editioned '1/1' in pencil by Michael Ward Stout, Executor of the Robert Mapplethorpe Estate, on the reverse, framed, 1987
image: 20 by 23 ¾ in. (50.8 by 60.3 cm.)
frame: 29 by 32 ¾ in. (73.66 by 83.2 cm.)
Arthur C. Danto, Mapplethorpe (New York, 1992), p. 231
Mark Holborn and Dimitri Levas, eds., Mapplethorpe: Pistils (New York, 1996), p. 97
Herbert Muschamp, Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers (New York, 2006), pl. 147
Unique platinum prints by Robert Mapplethorpe are rare; these exceptional prints were made in very small numbers and only a handful have been offered auction in the last 2 decades.
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