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ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
Tulips, (Just to Thank You), 1987
gelatin silver print, mounted on paper
signed, dated and numbered '13 / 50' in ink with partial title in typeset (margin)
image/sheet: 5 x 7 in. (12.8 x 17.9 cm.)
mount: 14 x 17 in. (35.7 x 43.2 cm.)
This work is number thirteen from an edition of fifty.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner, 1987.
Literature
Arthur C. Danto, Mapplethorpe, Random House, New York, 1992, p. 231.
Mark Holborn and Dimitri Levas (eds.), Mapplethorpe: Pistils, Jonathan Cape, London, 1996, p. 97.
Herbert Muschamp, Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers, teNeues, New York, 2006, pl. 147.
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