Robert Mapplethorpe Ken, Lydia and Tyler 1985 Gelatin silver print. 38.5 x 38.5 cm (15 1/8 x 15 1/8 in) Signed, dated and numbered 2/10 in ink in the margin; signed, dated in ink by the photographer, titled, dated, numbered in ink in an unidentified hand and copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp on the reverse of the flush-mount.
Provenance Galleria Photology, Milan Literature Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition: Photographs and Mannerist prints, exh. cat., Guggenheim Museum, Berlin, 2004, cover, p. 49 and pl.100 Catalogue Essay “If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.’’ ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE Read More Artist Bio Robert Mapplethorpe American • 1946 - 1989 After studying drawing, painting and sculpture at the Pratt Institute in the 1960s, Robert Mapplethorpe began experimenting with photography while living in the notorious Chelsea Hotel with Patti Smith Beginning with Polaroids, he soon moved on to a Hasselblad medium-format camera, which he used to explore aspects of life often only seen behind closed doors. By the 1980s Mapplethorpe's focus was predominantly in the studio, shooting portraits, flowers and nudes. His depiction of the human form in formal compositions reflects his love of classical sculpture and his groundbreaking marriage of those aesthetics with often challenging subject matter. Mapplethorpe's style is present regardless of subject matter — from erotic nudes to self-portraits and flowers — as he ceaselessly strove for what he called "perfection of form." View More Works
Robert Mapplethorpe Ken, Lydia and Tyler 1985 Gelatin silver print. 38.5 x 38.5 cm (15 1/8 x 15 1/8 in) Signed, dated and numbered 2/10 in ink in the margin; signed, dated in ink by the photographer, titled, dated, numbered in ink in an unidentified hand and copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp on the reverse of the flush-mount.
Provenance Galleria Photology, Milan Literature Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition: Photographs and Mannerist prints, exh. cat., Guggenheim Museum, Berlin, 2004, cover, p. 49 and pl.100 Catalogue Essay “If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.’’ ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE Read More Artist Bio Robert Mapplethorpe American • 1946 - 1989 After studying drawing, painting and sculpture at the Pratt Institute in the 1960s, Robert Mapplethorpe began experimenting with photography while living in the notorious Chelsea Hotel with Patti Smith Beginning with Polaroids, he soon moved on to a Hasselblad medium-format camera, which he used to explore aspects of life often only seen behind closed doors. By the 1980s Mapplethorpe's focus was predominantly in the studio, shooting portraits, flowers and nudes. His depiction of the human form in formal compositions reflects his love of classical sculpture and his groundbreaking marriage of those aesthetics with often challenging subject matter. Mapplethorpe's style is present regardless of subject matter — from erotic nudes to self-portraits and flowers — as he ceaselessly strove for what he called "perfection of form." View More Works
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