Name: ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
Brand: Invitation to Light Gallery opening, January 6, 1973
Price: 6500.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
Invitation to Light Gallery opening, January 6, 1973
gelatin silver print from Polaroid negative with adhesive dot
embossed photographer's credit (margin)
image: 2⁷⁄₈ x 3³⁄₄ in. (7.3 x 9.5 cm.)
sheet: 3³⁄₈ x 4³⁄₈ in. (8.6 x 11.1 cm.)
This print is accompanied by a protective Polaroid Polacolor Land Film sleeve and an addressed envelope to John Loring, artist and design director emeritus of Tiffany & Co, likely in the artist’s hand.

Directly from the artist to John Loring (B. 1939);
acquired from the Estate of the above by the present owner.

Sylvia Wolf, Polaroids: Mapplethorpe, Prestel, Munich, Berlin, London, New York, 2008, pl. 183, p. 233 and cover.

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John Loring (B.1939) is an American designer, author, and art historian best known as the longtime Design Director of Tiffany & Co. Loring was both part of Mapplethorpe's social circle and an early supporter of his career, going on to donate a piece of his collection to the Museum of Modern Art.