The Collection of Jay I. Kislak: Sold to Benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
Robert Mapplethorpe
Orchid
Lot Closed
October 5, 03:17 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert Mapplethorpe
1946 - 1989
Orchid
gelatin silver print, signed, dated, and editioned '1/10' in ink in the margin, flush-mounted, the photographer's copyright/reproduction rights stamp, signed and dated in ink, and with edition '1/10' in ink on the reverse, framed, 1982
image: 15 ¼ by 15 ¼ in. (38.7 by 38.7 cm.)
frame: 26 ¼ by 25 in. (66.7 by 63.5 cm.)
Richard Marshall, Robert Mapplethorpe, (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1988), p. 103
Mark Holborn and Dmitri Levas, eds., Mapplethorpe Pistils (New York, 1996), p. 73
Herbert Muschamp, Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers (Düsseldorf, 2006), pl. 55
Paul Martineau and Britt Salvesen, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2016), pl. 114 and p. 235