Robert Mapplethorpe

Iris

Auction Closed

June 26, 03:48 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Robert Mapplethorpe

1946 - 1989

Iris

signed and dated 1989 by Michael Ward Stout, Executor of the artist's estate, and stamped with the estate stamp (on the reverse of the flush-mount)

gelatin silver print

48.9 by 48.9 cm. 19¼ by 19¼ in.

framed: 65.5 by 66 cm. 25⅞ by 26 in.

Executed in 1989, this work is number 1 from an edition of 10.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 9th Benefit Auction, 7 October 1989, lot 64 (donated by the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation)

Acquired from the above by Ralph I. Goldenberg