Robert Mapplethorpe

Orchid

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October 5, 03:17 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

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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.)

Robert Miller Gallery, New York, 1983

Janet Kardon, The Perfect Moment (Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1988), p. 26

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