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ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
Cedric, NY, 1978
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board
signed and dated in ink in copyright credit stamp, titled and dated in pencil (flush mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed exhibition labels (frame backing board)
image: 137⁄8 x 133⁄4 in. (35.2 x 34.9 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 20 x 153⁄4 in. (50.8 x 40 cm.)
Provenance
Christie's, New York, October 10, 1991, lot 299;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Robert Mapplethorpe, Black Book, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1986, pl. 1.
Mark Holborn (ed.), Mapplethorpe, Random House, New York, 1992, p. 96.
Robert Mapplethorpe The Black Book, Schirmer/Mosel, Munich, 2010, p. 1.
W.M. Hunt, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious, Aperture, New York, 2011, p. 131.
Exhibited
Arles, Recontres de la Photographie; Lausanne, Musée de l'Élysée; Amsterdam, FOAM Fotogafiemuseum, Sans Regard or No Eyes: Photographs from W.M. Hunt / Collection Dancing Bear, 2005-2007.
Ocala, Appelton Museum of Fine Arts, The Unseen Eye: Photography from the Collection of W.M. Hunt, November 7, 2010–January 2, 2011.
Rochester, George Eastman House, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, October 1, 2011–February 19, 2012.
Portland, Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, The Unseen Eye, September 6–30, 2012.
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