Lot 372
  • 372

Robert Mapplethorpe

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Robert Mapplethorpe
  • 'LUCINDA'S HAND'
  • Edition 1 of 10
  • Gelatin silver print
flush-mounted, the photographer's copyright stamp, signed and dated in ink, and with title, date, edition '1/10' and '[MAP] 1618' in ink on the reverse, framed, Buhl Collection, Museo de Monterrey exhibition, and Robert Miller Gallery labels on the reverse, 1985

Provenance

Robert Miller Gallery, New York, 1994

Exhibited

Monterrey, Mexico, Museo de Monterrey, Robert Mapplethorpe, 1992

Palm Beach Photographic Centre, In Good Hands: Selected Works from the Buhl Collection, March 2011

Middletown, Delaware, Warner Gallery at St. Andrew's School, In Good Hands: Selected Works from the Buhl Collection, October - November 2011

Condition

This photograph is in generally excellent condition. Upon very close examination, a tiny matte deposit, possibly retouching, is visible near the middle-left edge of the image.
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