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ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
Calla Lily, 1984
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on card
signed, dated and numbered '1 / 10' in ink (margin); signed and dated in ink within stamped photographer's copyright credit and reproduction limitation (flush mount, verso)
image: 151⁄8 x 151⁄8 in. (38.4 x 38.4 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 193⁄4 x 157⁄8 in. (50.2 x 40.3 cm.)
This work is number one from an edition of ten.
Provenance
Robert Miller Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition Catalogue, Robert Mapplethorpe, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, 1988, p.129.
Arthur Danto, Mapplethorpe, Random House, New York, 1992, p. 269.
Robert Mapplethorpe, Pistils, Random House, New York, 1996, pl. 111.
Herbert Muschamp, Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers, teNeues, New York, 2006, pl. 89.
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