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ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)

Orchid, 1987

    Price Realised USD 22,680
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    USD 20,000 - USD 30,000
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    ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)

    Orchid, 1987

    Price Realised USD 22,680
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    Price Realised USD 22,680
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    ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)

    Orchid, 1987
    photogravure with silk collé
    signed, dated and numbered '2/27' in pencil (margin); credited, titled, and dated on affixed gallery label (frame backing board)
    overall framed: 50 1/8 x 44 7/8 x 1 in. (127.3 x 113.9 x 2.5 cm.)
    This work is number two from an edition of twenty-seven.
    Provenance
    Robert Miller Gallery, New York;
    acquired from the above by the present owner, 1987.
    Literature
    Exhibition Catalogue, Robert Mapplethorpe, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1988, p. 167 (variant.).
    Robert Mapplethorpe, Mapplethorpe, Random House, New York, 1992, p. 250.
    Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, 2004, p. 64, (variant). Robert Mapplethorpe, Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers, teNeues Publishing Group, New York, 2006, pl. 151.
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