Lot 42
Lot 42
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)

Larry, 1979

Price Realised USD 5,000
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USD 6,000 - USD 8,000
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ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)

Larry, 1979

Price Realised USD 5,000
Price Realised USD 5,000
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ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
Larry, 1979
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board
signed and titled in ink in photographer's copyright credit and titled in pencil, numbered '1/10' in ink (flush mount, verso)
image: 14 x 1378 in. (35.5 x 35.2 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 1978 x 1578 in. (50.4 x 40.3 cm.)
This work is number one from an edition of ten.
Provenance
Christie's, New York, April 6, 1995, lot 415;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Mark Holborn (ed.), Mapplethorpe, Random House, New York, 1992, p. 97.
W.M. Hunt, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious, Aperture, New York, 2011, p. 115.
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.
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