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ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
Derrick Cross, 1983
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board
signed and dated in ink in photographer's copyright credit stamp, signed again in ink, titled, dated and numbered '3/10' in ink and numbered '996' in pencil (flush mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed gallery label (frame backing board)
image: 1918 x 1518 in. (48.6 x 38.5 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 1934 x 1534 in. (50.2 x 40 cm.)
This work is number three from an edition of ten.
Provenance
Sam Wagstaff, New York;
acquired from the above by Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, 1985;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Robert Mapplethorpe, Black Book, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1986, p. 59.
Germano Celant et al., Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition: Photographs and Mannerist Prints, Guggenheim Museum Publications, New York, 2004, pl. 24.
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