Robert Mapplethorpe
Self-Portrait, 1985
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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
Zurich, Mai 36 Galerie, Art Basel Online Viewing Room, 2020
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
