ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
Man in Polyester Suit, 1980
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on card
signed, dated and numbered '9 / 15' in ink (margin); signed and dated in ink within stamped photographer's copyright credit and reproduction limitation (flush mount, verso)
image: 17⁷⁄₈ x 14 in. (45.4 x 35.6 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 19⁷⁄₈ x 15⁷⁄₈ in. (50.5 x 40.3 cm.)
This work is number nine from an edition of fifteen.

Gallery Nagel Draxler, Berlin;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1981.

Exhibition Catalogue, Robert Mapplethorpe, 1970-1983, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1983, p. 46.
Robert Mapplethorpe, Black Book, St Martin's Press, New York, 1986, p.55.
Exhibition Catalogue, Robert Mapplethorpe: Ten by Ten, Schirmer/Mosel, Munich, 1988, pl. 55.
Exhibition Catalogue, Robert Mapplethorpe, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, 1988, p.95.
Exhibition Catalogue, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1990, p. 69.
Arthur Danto, Mapplethorpe, Random House, New York, 1992, p. 117, 335.
Arthur Danto, Playing with the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1996, p. 110.
Exhibition Catalogue, Mapplethorpe + Munch, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2016, pl. 41, p. 159.
Exhibition Catalogue, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2016, pl. 72, p. 101.