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The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Robert Mapplethorpe

Michael

Auction Closed

November 9, 06:24 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Robert Mapplethorpe

1946 - 1989


Michael

platinum print on linen canvas with 2 silk panels, in artist's frame

29 by 50 in.

73.7 by 127 cm.

Executed in 1987, this work is unique.

Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1987 by the present owner
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Robert Mapplethorpe, July - October 1988, p. 179, illustrated
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Robert Mapplethorpe, February - May 1992, p. 60 (text)
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Shared Vision: Photographs from the Collections of Emily Fisher Landau and Anne E. and M. Anthony Fisher, October 1998 - November 1999
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, We Are the World: Figures & Portraits, November 2009 - April 2010
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Altered Appearances, July 2015 - January 2016
Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Bellport, 1987, p. 21, illustrated
Mark Holborn and Dimitri Levas, eds., Mapplethorpe: Altars, New York, 1995, pp. 118-19, illustrated
Robert Mapplethorpe and Els Barents, Robert Mapplethorpe: Ten by Ten, Munich, 1996, pl. 57, illustrated (variant)
Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Mapplethorpe, New York, 2007, p. 230, illustrated (variant)