Photographs

Robert Mapplethorpe

Mirror Image

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April 7, 06:14 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Robert Mapplethorpe

1946 - 1989

Mirror Image

(New York and Munich: Edition Schellmann, Inc., 1987-88, an edition of 18 plus 5 artist's proofs), 2 laminated gelatin silver prints on either side of blue mirrored plexiglass, framed to the photographer's specifications, an Edition Schellmann label, signed by the photographer in ink and with stamped edition '7/18,' on the reverse, 1987-88

overall: 18 ¾ by 53 in. (47.6 by 134.6 cm.)

Some Women (Boston, 1989), pp. 20-1 (without mirror)

Edition Schellmann 1969-1989 (Munich and New York, 1989), p. 206

Jörg Schellmann, ed., Forty Are Better Than One (Munich and New York, 2009), pp. 230-1