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Robert Mapplethorpe

Man in Polyester Suit

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

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Robert Mapplethorpe

1946 - 1989


Man in Polyester Suit

gelatin silver print, signed, dated and editioned 8/15 in ink in the margin, flush-mounted, the photographer's copyright stamp, signed and dated in ink, with edition and [MAP] 529 in pencil, on the reverse

image: 17⅞ by 13⅞ in. (45.4 by 35.3 cm.)

Executed in 1980.

Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam

Galerie Nagel, Berlin

Acquired from the above circa 1981-82 by the present owner

Peter Weiermair, ed., Robert Mapplethorpe, Frankfurter Kunstverein 1981, p. 36

Sandy Nairne, Robert Mapplethorpe: 1970-1983, London: Institute of Contemporary Arts 1983, p. 46

Robert Mapplethorpe, Black Book, New York 1986, pl. 55

Richard Marshall, Robert Mapplethorpe, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art 1988, p. 95

Robert Mapplethorpe and Janet Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Arts, University of Pennsylvania 1988, pl. 69

Els Barents, Robert Mapplethorpe: Ten By Ten, Munich 1988, no. 55

Mark Holborn and Dmitri Levas, eds., Mapplethorpe, New York 1992, pl. 117, p. 335

Germano Celant, Mapplethorpe, London: Hayward Gallery 1992, p. 145

Arthur C. Danto, Playing with the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe, Berkeley 1996, p. 110

Robert Mapplethorpe, Stern Spezial Fotografie, portfolio no. 33, Dusseldorf 2003, p. 19

Sandra Phillips, ed., Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera since 1870, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2010, pl. 57

Molesworth, Helen, This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s, Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 2012, p. 370 [caption reads "Man in Suit, 1980"].

Germano Celant, Robert Mapplethorpe: la ninfa fotografia, Milan 2014, pl. 67, p. 89

Mapplethorpe + Munch, Oslo: Munch Museum 2016, p. 159

Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs, Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum 2016, pl. 72, p. 101

Robert Mapplethorpe, Mapplethorpe, London 2020, p. 271

Derek Conrad Murray, Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control, London 2020, fig. 3, p. 50

Paul Martineau and Ryan Linkof, Queer Lens: A History of Photography, Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum 2025, no. 133, p. 203