Modern & Contemporary Auction
Modern & Contemporary Auction
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