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Art & Design from The Collection of Barbara Gladstone

Robert Mapplethorpe

Self Portrait

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June 9, 05:05 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

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Art & Design from The Collection of Barbara Gladstone

Robert Mapplethorpe

1946 - 1989


Self Portrait

signed, dated 80 and numbered 6/15 in ink (in the margin); the photographer's copyright stamp, signed and dated 1980 in ink, and with edition 6/15 and [MAP] 385 in ink (on the reverse)

gelatin silver print, flush-mounted

13 ¾ by 13 ¾ in.

34.9 by 34.9 cm.

Executed in 1980, this print is number 6 from an edition of 15.

The Collection of Barbara Gladstone

Robert Mapplethorpe, Certain People: A Book of Portraits, Pasadena 1985, rear dust jacket, illustrated

Richard Marshall, ed., Robert Mapplethorpe, New York 1990, p. 205, illustrated

Mark Holborn and Dimitri Levas, Mapplethorpe, London 1995, p. 44, illustrated

Germano Celant, Robert Mapplethorpe: Tra antico e moderno: Un' antologia, Turin 2006, p. 175, illustrated

Germano Celant, Mapplethorpe: The Nymph Photography, Milan 2014, p. 189, illustrated