THE EMILY FISHER LANDAU COLLECTION: AN ERA DEFINED
Robert Mapplethorpe
Orchid
Lot Closed
December 15, 05:26 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert Mapplethorpe
1946 - 1989
Orchid
signed, dated 87 and numbered 6/10 in ink (in the margin); the photographer's stamp, signed and dated 1987 in ink, title, date and number 6/10 in ink (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print
19¼ by 19¼ in.
48.9 by 48.9 cm.
Executed in 1987, this print is number 6 from an edition of 10.
Estate of the artist
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1993 by the present owner
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
Robert Mapplethorpe, Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers, Düsseldorf and New York, 2006, pl. 151, illustrated (another alternately cropped example illustrated)
Mark Stephen Archer, The New Formal: Interiors by James Aman, New York, 2016, p. 76, illustrated (in installation)
Other prints of Orchid are in the collection of the Tate, London, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
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