Lot 41
  • 41

Robert Mapplethorpe

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
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Description

  • Robert Mapplethorpe
  • Tuberose, 1977
  • photograph
  • 34,6 x 34,6 cm
Vintage silver print in its original mount. Signed, dated and numbered 3/3 in pencil in the lower margin. On the reverse, titled in pencil. Matted on its original mat and framed.

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, Photographs, 27 April 2005, lot 192
Galerie Thierry Marlat, Paris

Literature

Herbert Muschamp, Mapplethorpe : The Complete Flowers, Düsseldorf, teNeues, 2006, pl. 17.

Condition

This silver print is in very good general condition. The lower edge with a 4 cm horizontal loss away from the image and under the original mount.
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Catalogue Note

© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation - Used by permission