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Lot 642 D

Robert Mapplethorpe - Irises

Auction 1222 - overview Cologne
06.06.2023, 14:00 - Photography
Estimate: 13.000 € - 15.000 €
Result: 22.680 € (incl. premium)

Robert Mapplethorpe

Irises
1986

Gelatin silver print. 48.6 x 48.8 cm (60.3 x 50.6 cm). Flush-mounted to cardboard, signature estate stamp, therein signed by Michael Ward Stout in ballpoint pen and dated in ink, another estate stamp as well as detailed notes on the work and inventory number in an unknown hand in ink and ballpoint pen on the reverse of the mount. Print 8 from an edition of 10. - Matted and framed.

Provenance

Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia

Literature

Els Barents (ed.), Robert Mapplethorpe. Ten by Ten, exhib.cat. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Munich 1988, plate 25; Arthur C. Danto, Robert Mapplethorpe, Munich i.a. 1992, ill. p. 263; Marc Holborn/Dimitri Levas (ed.), Robert Mapplethorpe. Flora. The Complete Flowers, London 2016, ill. p. 141