Name: ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
Brand: Irises, 1986
Price: 15000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
Irises, 1986
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board
signed, dated and numbered '6/10' in ink (margin); titled, dated and numbered '6/10' in ink, signed and dated in photographer's copyright credit stamp (verso)
image: 19 x 19 in. (48.2 x 48.2 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 23⁵⁄₈ x 19⁵⁄₈ in. (60 x 49.8 cm.)
This work is number six from an edition of ten.

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1987.

Janet Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1990, p. 89.
Arthur C. Danto, Mapplethorpe, Random House, New York, 1992, p. 263.
Herbert Muschamp, Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers, teNeues, Dusseldorf, 2006, pl. 138.
Els Barents, Robert Mapplethorpe: Ten by Ten, Schirmer/Mosel, Berlin, 2004, pl. 25.

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