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ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
Lydia Cheng, 1987
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board
signed and dated in ink within photographer's copyright credit stamp and titled, dated, numbered '6 / 10' in ink (flush mount, verso)
image: 1914 x 23 in. (48.9 x 58.3 cm.)
sheet/ flush mount: 20 x 24 in. (51 x 60.8 cm.)
This work is number six from an edition of ten.
Provenance
Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, 1989;
Christie's, New York, April 2, 2019, lot 176;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Janet Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 1988, p. 95.
Robert Mapplethorpe, Ten by Ten, Schirmer/Mosel, Munich, 1988, pl. 54.
Exhibition catalogue, Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition: Photographs and Mannerist Prints, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 2004, pl 23.
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