Lot 156
  • 156

Robert Mapplethorpe

Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • Robert Mapplethorpe
  • 'Neck'
  • gelatin silver print
flush-mounted, the photographer's copyright stamp, with date in ink, the photographer's estate stamp, signed and dated by Michael Ward Stout, Executor, in ink and with title, date, and edition '4/10' in ink and '[MAP] 1866' in pencil on the reverse, framed, a Robert Miller Gallery label on the reverse, 1988 (Mapplethorpe, p. 275)

Provenance

Robert Miller Gallery, New York

Condition

This print is in generally excellent condition. The upper margin corners are bumped. There is a stray linear graphite mark running along the left margin edge. 'RMG# M8901.033-C' is written in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse.
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