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Lot 713 D

Robert Mapplethorpe - Parrot Tulip in Black Vase

Auction 1232 - overview Cologne
01.12.2023, 14:00 - Photography
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
Result: 30.240 € (incl. premium)

Robert Mapplethorpe

Parrot Tulip in Black Vase
1985

Gelatin silver print. 25.1 x 25.3 cm (35.3 x 27.8 cm). Signed and dated in ink in the margin lower right, dedicated lower left. - Matted and framed.

Provenance

Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne; Rosemarie Trockel and Curtis Anderson collection, Cologne; private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia

Literature

Janet Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe. The Perfect Moment, Philadelphia/PA 1988, ill. p. 91; Richard Marshall, Robert Mapplethorpe, exhib.cat. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, London 1988, ill. p. 133; Marc Holborn/Dimitri Levas (eds.), Robert Mapplethorpe. Flora. The Complete Flowers, London 2016, ill. p. 161.