Robert Mapplethorpe

2 unique Polaroid Polapan prints, comprising Untitled (Bed and Telephone) and Untitled (Constantine Hotel, Shower), each framed, with a Whitney Museum of American Art label on the reverse, 1973-75 (Polaroids, pl. 60, Untitled (Bed and Telephone) (this print); and pl. 63, a variant of Untitled (Constantine Hotel, Shower)) (2)

Acquired from the photographer by Judy Linn, friend and fellow artist, mid-1970s

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Polaroids: Mapplethorpe, May - September 2008, and traveling thereafter to 3 locations through 2010

These unique Polaroid prints are in generally excellent condition. Untitled (Bed): In raking light, some fingerprints are visible in the margins. Untitled (Constantine Hotel, Shower): There are 2 deposits of indeterminate nature in the upper left quadrant, which are visible only upon close examination. The exhibition labels on the reverse of the frames date these prints as '1973/75.'
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