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Materials:

Gelatin silver print

Size Notes:

Each image; Frame: 58.3 x 107.5 cm

Edition:

Unique

Description:

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Markings:

Annotated 'Left' and 'Right', respectively, in pencil on the reverse of each flush-mount

Condition:

in artist's original silk overmats and frame

Exhibited:

Flowers, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, 12 - 30 November 1977 Mapplethorpe Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 27 July - 23 October 1988 Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, ICA, Philadelphia, 9 December 1988 - 29 January 1989; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 25 February - 16 April 1989; Washington Projects for the Arts, Washington, D.C., 20 July - 13 August 1989; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, 21 October - 31 December 1989; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, 17 January - 18 March 1990; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, 7 April - 21 May 1990; ICA, Boston, 1 August - 4 October 1990 Robert Mapplethorpe, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum, Tokyo, 2 June - 2 July 1992; Contemporary Art Gallery, Ibaraki, 18 July - 3 November 1993; Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, 9 January - 7 February 1993; Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, 13 February - 4 April 1993; Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Otsu, 10 April - 23 May 1993; Weston Gallery, Tokyo

Literature:

R. Marshall, Robert Mapplethorpe, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1988, p. 58 J. Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, Philadelphia: ICA, 1989, p. 43 Robert Mapplethorpe, Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun, 1992, p. 68, pl. 26 Altars, London: Jonathan Cape, 1995, p. 63 Pistils, London: Jonathan Cape, 1996, p. 63 Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers, Düsseldorf: West Byfleet: teNeues, 2006, pls. 14-15 Mapplethorpe Flora: The Complete Flowers, London: Phaidon, 2016, pp. 280-281

Provenance:

Cheim & Read, New York, late 1990s Private Collection, Seoul