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ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
Calla Lily, 1986
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board
signed, dated, and numbered in ink (margin); signed and dated in ink in photographer's copyright credit stamp, titled, dated, numbered ‘1/10’ and '1691' in ink (flush mount, verso)
image:19 1/4 x 19 1/4 in. (48.8 x 48.8 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 24 x 20 in.( 60.9 x 50.8 cm.)
This work is number one from an edition of ten.
Provenance
Private Collection, Japan;
Sotheby’s, New York, October 5-6, 1994, lot 407;
acquired from the above by the present owner.Literature
Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe Bellport Press, New York, 1987, n.p.
Els Barents, Robert Mapplethorpe; Ten by Ten, Schirmer/Mosel, Berlin, 1988. pl. 28.
Richard Marshall, Robert Mapplethorpe Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1988, p. 185.
Arthur Danto, Robert Mapplethorpe Random House, New York, 1992, p. 253.
Herbert Muschamp, Mapplethorpe; The Complete Flowers, teNeues, Düsseldorf, 2006, pl. 129.