拍品 140
  • 140

Robert Mapplethorpe

估價
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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描述

  • Robert Mapplethorpe
  • 'PARROT TULIP IN A BLACK VASE'
  • Platinum palladium print
platinum-palladium print, signed, dated, and editioned '1/3' in pencil in the margin, stamped, signed, dated, and copyrighted in pencil, on the reverse, framed, a Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition label on the reverse, 1985 (Complete Flowers, pl. 107)

展覽

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Robert Mapplethorpe, July - October 1988

出版

Richard Marshall, Robert Mapplethorpe (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1988), p. 133 (this print)

Condition

This large print, one of only three of this image rendered in platinum, is in generally excellent condition. Upon close examination, 3 very small, light rust-colored deposits are visible in the upper and lower margins. On the reverse of the frame is Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition label with typed credit, title, date, medium, edition, and 'RM.88.333.1.' Also on the reverse is a white label with typed credit, title, date, medium, edition, 'RM' and 'Custom Frame.' This label is pasted on top of a Robert Miller Gallery, Inc., New York, label.
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