Robert Mapplethorpe
Self Portrait
Lot #2 |
2021-04-12 |
Sotheby's, New York
50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs
Category:
Drawing
Estimate:
USD 200,000 - 300,000 (currency of sale)
Price Sold:
Auction Details
Auction house: Sotheby's
Auction number: N10648
Auction name: 50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: New York
Start date: 2021-04-12
End date: 2021-04-21
Currency: USD
Source:
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Lot Description
Details
Genre: Photography
Department: Painting & Works on Paper
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Dimensions: 19 ⅜ by 19 ½ in.
Item measurements:
Height In Centimeters:
49.2
Width In Centimeters:
49.5
Height In Inches:
19.375
Width In Inches:
19.5
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Edition: 3
Edition notes: Edition 1/3.
Provenance
Barbara Gladstone, New York, 1992
Literature
Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell (New York, 1986), unpaginated Robert Mapplethorpe, Mapplethorpe Portraits (London: National Portrait Gallery, 1988), p. 33, pl. 13 Arthur C. Danto, Mapplethorpe (New York, 1992), pl. 42 Germano Celant, Mapplethorpe (London: Hayward Gallery, 1992), cover and p. 33 Robert Mapplethorpe: Mirrors (New York, 1993), unpaginated Patricia Morrisroe, 'The Demon Romantics,' Vanity Fair , July 1995, p. 122 Patricia Morrisroe, Mapplethorpe: A Biography (New York, 1995), p. 228 (variant) Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell (Boston, 1997), cover Love's Body: Rethinking Naked and Nude in Photography (Tokyo, 1998), p. 74, pl. 67 Jérôme Neutres, ed., Robert Mapplethorpe (Paris: Grand Palais, 2014), p. 25 Germano Celant, Mapplethorpe: The Nymph Photography (Milan, 2014), p. 66
Catalog summary
Robert Mapplethorpe 1946 - 1989 Self Portrait platinum print, signed, dated, and editioned '1/3' in pencil in the margin, in a red frame designed to the photographer's specifications, a Robert Miller Gallery, New York, label on the reverse, 1985, no. one in an edition of 3 plus one artist's proof image: 19 ⅜ by 19 ½ in. (49.2 by 49.5 cm.) frame: 32 ⅝ by 28 ⅞ in. (82.9 by 73.3 cm.) Provenance Barbara Gladstone, New York, 1992 Literature Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell (New York, 1986), unpaginated Robert Mapplethorpe, Mapplethorpe Portraits (London: National Portrait Gallery, 1988), p. 33, pl. 13 Arthur C. Danto, Mapplethorpe (New York, 1992), pl. 42 Germano Celant, Mapplethorpe (London: Hayward Gallery, 1992), cover and p. 33 Robert Mapplethorpe: Mirrors (New York, 1993), unpaginated Patricia Morrisroe, 'The Demon Romantics,' Vanity Fair , July 1995, p. 122 Patricia Morrisroe, Mapplethorpe: A Biography (New York, 1995), p. 228 (variant) Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell (Boston, 1997), cover Love's Body: Rethinking Naked and Nude in Photography (Tokyo, 1998), p. 74, pl. 67 Jérôme Neutres, ed., Robert Mapplethorpe (Paris: Grand Palais, 2014), p. 25 Germano Celant, Mapplethorpe: The Nymph Photography (Milan, 2014), p. 66