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ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)

Calla Lilies, from the Flowers Portfolio, 1987

    Price Realised USD 20,160
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    ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)

    Calla Lilies, from the Flowers Portfolio, 1987

    Price Realised USD 20,160
    Price Realised USD 20,160
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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: 183⁄4 x 191⁄8 in. (47.6 x 48.6 cm.)
    sheet: 281⁄2 x 243⁄4 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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