Robert Mapplethorpe

Baby's Breath

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July 19, 04:24 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Between Thought and Expression: Works from a Private American Collection

Robert Mapplethorpe

1946 - 1989

Baby's Breath

signed Robert Mapplethorpe, dated '82, and numbered 8/10 (in the margin); signed Robert Mapplethorpe, titled Baby's Breath, numbered 8/10, and copyrighted 1982 (on the reverse)

gelatin silver print

15⅛ by 15¼ in.

38.7 by 38.7 cm.

Executed in 1982; this print is number 8 from an edition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofs.

Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Robert Mapplethorpe, 1988, p. 102, illustrated

Mark Holborn and Dmitri Levas, eds., Mapplethorpe: Pistils, New York, 1996, p. 61, illustrated

Herbert Muschamp, Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers, Düsseldorf, 2006, pl. 53, illustrated