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ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
Calla Lilies, from the Flowers Portfolio, 1987
toned photogravure
signed, dated and numbered '22 / 25' in pencil (margin); credited, titled, dated and number on affixed gallery label (frame backing board)
image: 1834 x 1918 in. (47.6 x 48.6 cm.)
sheet: 2812 x 2434 in. (72.4 x 62.9 cm.)
This work is number twenty-two from an edition of twenty-five plus five artist's proofs.
Provenance
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen;
Private Collection, New York;
Artnet Auctions, November 11, 2010, lot 35515;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Patti Smith, Mapplethorpe: Flowers, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1990, pl. 34 (variant).
Robert Mapplethorpe and John Ashbery, Pistils, Random House, New York, 1996, p. 151.
Herbert Muschamp, Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers, teNeues, Dusseldorf, 2006, pl. 170.
Jon-Ove Steihaug (ed.), Mapplethorpe + Munch, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2016, p. 130 (variant).
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