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Robert Mapplethorpe

Self-Portrait, 1985

Lot Closed

June 14, 12:30 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 CHF

Lot Details

Description

Robert Mapplethorpe

1946 - 1989

Self-Portrait, 1985


Gelatin silver print, flush-mounted to card

Signed, dated, and editioned 6/10 in ink in the margin;

the photographer's copyright stamp, signed and dated in ink, and with title, date, and edition 6/10 in ink on the reverse, framed

50.5 x 40.5 cm (unframed); 61.5 x 59.5 cm (framed)


This work is number 6 from an edition of 10.

Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva

Private collection, Switzerland

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008

E. Barents, Robert Mapplethorpe: Ten By Ten, Munich, 1988, pl. 44

A. Danto, Mapplethorpe, New York, 1992, p. 297

P. Martineau, B. Salvesen, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs, Los Angeles, 2016, cover and pl. 138

Zurich, Mai 36 Galerie, Art Basel Online Viewing Room, 2020