Name: ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946-1989)
Brand: Orchid, 1986
Price: 10000.00 USD
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ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946-1989)
Orchid, 1986
dye transfer print, flush-mounted on board
signed, dated and numbered '6/7' and 'DT 1671' in ink (flush mount, recto); signed and dated in ink in photographer's copyright credit stamp, titled, dated and numbered '6/7' in ink (flush mount, verso)
image: 18 5/8 x 18 1/4 in. (47.3 x 46.3 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 23 3/4 x 20 in. (60.3 x 50.8 cm.)
This work is number six from an edition of seven.

Christie's, New York, October 10, 2005, lot 221;
acquired from the above by the present owner.

Artforum, vol. 25, no. 9 (May 1987), cover.
Robert Mapplethorpe, Flowers, Bulfinch Press, New York, 1986, p. 12. Robert Mapplethorpe, Ten by Ten, Schirmer/Mosel, Munchen, 1988, p. 29.
Exhibition Catalogue, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philidelphia, 1990, p. 85.
Robert Mapplethorpe, Mapplethorpe, Random House, New York, 1992, p. 237 (variant.)
Robert Mapplethorpe, Pistils, Random House, New York, 1996, p.135.
Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, 2004, p. 59, (variant). Robert Mapplethorpe, Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers, teNeues Publishing Group, New York, 2006, pl. 135.

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