Lot 50
  • 50

Robert Mapplethorpe

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Robert Mapplethorpe
  • 'Calla Lilies', 1985
  • photograph
Silver print, mounted to card. With the estate stamp signed by Michael Ward Stout executor, dated 1985 and the title and the edition 5/10 annotated in pencil on the reverse of the mount. Framed.

Provenance

Robert Miller Gallery, New York

Condition

This silver print is in very good to excellent condition. With a tidemark on the lower edge of the reverse of the print, which has not appeared to seep through to the image on the recto.
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