Lot Details
Description
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
1946-1989
TULIP, 1985
tirage argentique, contrecollé sur carton
titré, daté et numéroté '3/10' à l'encre noire, signé par Michael Ward Stout, éxécutant, sur le tampon de la fondation au verso
monté sous passe-partout et encadré
silver print, flush-mounted to card
titled, dated and numbered '3/10' in black ink, signed by Michael Ward Stout, executor, on the estate stamp, on the reverse of card
matted and framed
image: 15 ¼ x 15 ¼ in.; 38,7 x 38,7 cm
carton / card: 19 ¾ x 15 ¾ in.; 50,5 x 40,5 cm
Condition Report
This silver print is in excellent condition. The upper left corner with a tiny dot of retouching visible under raking light only.
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Cataloguing
Provenance
Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc. New York
Sotheby's New York, Photographs, October 17, 2003, lot 284
Galerie Thierry Marlat, Paris
Literature
Herbert Muschamp, Mapplethorpe : The Complete Flowers (Düsseldorf, teNeues, 2006) ill. chronological index