LOT DETAILS

Materials:

platinum print

Measurements:

25.98 in. (66.00 cm.) (height) by 22.01 in. (55.90 cm.) (width)

Edition:

AP 1/1 (total ed. 4 prints in platinum metals)

Markings:

numbered 'AP 1/1' and inscribed '(MAP)1351' in an unidentified hand and signed, dated, and with the Mapplethorpe Estate copyright by Michael Ward Stout, Executor of the Mapplethorpe Estate, in ink on the reverse, a Robert Miller Gallery, New York, label on the reverse

Condition:

in a frame designed to the photographer's specifications

Literature:

Other prints of this image: Richard Marshall, Robert Mapplethorpe (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1988, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 129. Janet Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment (Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1988, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 93. Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers (Düsseldorf, 2006), pl. 86.

Provenance:

Acquired by the present owner from Robert Miller Gallery, New York, 1996.