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A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Robert Mapplethorpe

Untitled (Self-Portrait)

Auction Closed

November 16, 11:16 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

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A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Robert Mapplethorpe

1946 - 1989


Untitled (Self-Portrait)

Polaroid print

4⅛ by 5⅛ in.

10.5 by 13.2 cm.

Executed circa 1973, this work is unique.

Estate of the artist
Cheim & Read, New York
Acquired from the above in 2000 by the present owner
New York, Cheim & Read, Robert Mapplethorpe Autoportrait Polaroids 1972-1974, April - June 2000
Robert Mapplethorpe and Richard Marshall, Robert Mapplethorpe Autoportrait, New York, 2001, p. 3, illustrated