Robert Mapplethorpe 1946-1989

signed, dated, and numbered '5/10' by the photographer in ink in the margin, flush-mounted, his copyright stamp, signed by him and dated in an unidentified hand in ink, and titled, dated, and numbered '5/10' and (MAP) '1847' in an unidentified hand in ink on the reverse, matted, in a frame designed to the photographer's specifications, a Robert Miller Gallery, New York, label on the reverse, 1988, no. 5 in an edition of 10

Sotheby's New York, 6 April 2000, Sale 4750, Lot 281

Acquired by the present owner from the above

Other prints of this image:

Richard Marshall, Robert Mapplethorpe (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1988, in conjunction with the exhibition), cover and p. 195

Germano Celant and Arkady Ippolitov, Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition: Photographs and Mannerist Prints (Berlin: Deutsche Guggenheim, 2004, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 112

Mark Holborn and Dimitri Levas, eds., Mapplethorpe (New York, 1992), p. 295

This photograph is in generally excellent condition.
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