Lot 45
  • 45

Robert Mapplethorpe

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Robert Mapplethorpe
  • Lily, 1984
  • photograph
  • 37 x 37 cm
Silver print, flush-mounted to card. On the reverse, signed and dated on the photographers signature stamp by Michael Ward Stout, executor of the Estate, titled dated and numbered 3/10 in ink. Matted and framed. From an edition of  10.

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, Photographs, 17 October 2003, lot 284
Galerie Thierry Marlat, Paris

Literature

Herbert Muschamp, Mapplethorpe : The Complete Flowers, Düsseldorf, teNeues, 2006, ill. chronological index.

Condition

This silver print is in excellent overall condition.
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Catalogue Note

© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation - Used by permission