ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE | 'CALLA LILY'
Auction Closed
April 5, 08:29 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 90,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
1946-1989
'CALLA LILY'
dye-transfer print, flush-mounted, the photographer's estate stamp, signed and dated by Michael Ward Stout, Executor, in ink and with title, date, edition 'AP 1/1,' and '[MAP] DT 1836' in ink on the reverse, framed, 1987, artist's proof in addition to the edition of 7
18¾ by 18½ in. (47.6 by 47 cm.)
Collection of Sir Elton John
Christie's New York, Photographs from the Collection of Sir Elton John, 14 October 2004, Sale 1541, Lot 52
Private collection
Christie's London, 17 May 2006, Sale 7226, Lot 92
Flowers: Mapplethorpe (Boston, 1990), pl. 30
John Ashbery, Mapplethorpe: Pistils (New York, 1996), back cover of slip case, pp. 113 and 155 (black and white or sepia variants)
Herbert Muschamp, Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers (New York, 2006), pls. 156 (sepia variant) and 157