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Auction archive: Lot number 111

ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)

Photographs
22 Sep 2022 - 6 Oct 2022
Estimate
US$20,000 - US$30,000
Price realised:
US$22,680
Auction archive: Lot number 111

ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)

Photographs
22 Sep 2022 - 6 Oct 2022
Estimate
US$20,000 - US$30,000
Price realised:
US$22,680
Beschreibung:

Details
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
Orchid, 1987
photogravure with silk collé
signed, dated and numbered '2/27' in pencil (margin); credited, titled, and dated on affixed gallery label (frame backing board)
overall framed: 50 1/8 x 44 7/8 x 1 in. (127.3 x 113.9 x 2.5 cm.)
This work is number two from an edition of twenty-seven.
Provenance
Robert Miller Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1987.Literature
Exhibition Catalogue, Robert Mapplethorpe Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1988, p. 167 (variant.).
Robert Mapplethorpe, Mapplethorpe, Random House, New York, 1992, p. 250.
Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, 2004, p. 64, (variant). Robert Mapplethorpe Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers, teNeues Publishing Group, New York, 2006, pl. 151.

Auction archive: Lot number 111
Auction:
Datum:
22 Sep 2022 - 6 Oct 2022
Auction house:
Christie's
King Street, St. James's 8
London, SW1Y 6QT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7839 9060
+44 (0)20 73892869
Beschreibung:

Details
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
Orchid, 1987
photogravure with silk collé
signed, dated and numbered '2/27' in pencil (margin); credited, titled, and dated on affixed gallery label (frame backing board)
overall framed: 50 1/8 x 44 7/8 x 1 in. (127.3 x 113.9 x 2.5 cm.)
This work is number two from an edition of twenty-seven.
Provenance
Robert Miller Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1987.Literature
Exhibition Catalogue, Robert Mapplethorpe Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1988, p. 167 (variant.).
Robert Mapplethorpe, Mapplethorpe, Random House, New York, 1992, p. 250.
Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, 2004, p. 64, (variant). Robert Mapplethorpe Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers, teNeues Publishing Group, New York, 2006, pl. 151.

Auction archive: Lot number 111
Auction:
Datum:
22 Sep 2022 - 6 Oct 2022
Auction house:
Christie's
King Street, St. James's 8
London, SW1Y 6QT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7839 9060
+44 (0)20 73892869
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