Robert Mapplethorpe
'Self-Portrait'
Lot #91 |
2022-10-07 |
Sotheby's, New York
Classic Photographs
Category:
Drawing
Estimate:
USD 60,000 - 90,000 (currency of sale)
Price Sold:
Auction Details
Auction house: Sotheby's
Auction number: N11109
Auction name: Classic Photographs
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: New York
Start date: 2022-10-07
Currency: USD
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Lot Description
Details
Genre: Photography
Department: Painting & Works on Paper
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Dimensions: 13 ¾ by 13 ⅞ in.
Item measurements:
Height In Centimeters:
34.9
Width In Centimeters:
35.2
Height In Inches:
13.75
Width In Inches:
13.875
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Edition: 15
Edition notes: Edition 1/15.
Literature
Robert Mapplethorpe, Certain People: A Book of Portraits (Pasadena, 1985), cover and unpaginated Arthur C. Danto, Mapplethorpe (New York, 1992), p. 39 Paul Martineau and Britt Salvesen, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2016), pl. 85
Catalog summary
Robert Mapplethorpe 1946 - 1989 'Self-Portrait' gelatin silver print, flush-mounted, signed, dated, and editioned '1/15' in ink in the margin, titled and dated in ink, the photographer's copyright stamp, signed and dated in ink, and with the edition '1/15' in pencil on the reverse, framed, 1980 image: 13 ¾ by 13 ⅞ in. (34.9 by 35.2 cm.) frame: 20 ¼ by 16 ¼ in. (51.4 by 41.3 cm.) Literature Robert Mapplethorpe, Certain People: A Book of Portraits (Pasadena, 1985), cover and unpaginated Arthur C. Danto, Mapplethorpe (New York, 1992), p. 39 Paul Martineau and Britt Salvesen, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2016), pl. 85