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Robert Mapplethorpe

1946 – New York – 1989

Ajitto. 1981

Gelatin silver print, 1981. 45,4 × 35,6 cm (50,4 × 40,4 cm) (17 ⅞ × 14 in. (19 ⅞ × 15 ⅞ in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Robert Mapplethorpe. Ajitto. 1981.

Estimate:

EUR 8,000

 

- 10,000

USD 9,840

 

- 12,300

Sold for:

17,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2018

Photography, Wednesday, 30.05.2018

Information

Gelatin silver print, 1981. 45,4 × 35,6 cm (50,4 × 40,4 cm) (17 ⅞ × 14 in. (19 ⅞ × 15 ⅞ in.)). Laid down on cardboard, the estate stamp with signature facsimile on the reverse: „THE ESTATE OF ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE ...", signed by Michael Ward Stout with blue felt-tip pen and dated by another hand with black felt-tip pen (exposure and print). Dated, titled, editioned and numbered with pencil by various hands. Gallery label with information on the work itself on the reverse.. One of 15 editioned prints.

Formerly Robert Miller Gallery, New York

The photograph is framed

Mark Holborn und Dimitri Levas (ed.): Mapplethorpe. Die grosse Werkmonographie. Munich, 1992, p. 164 / exh.-cat.: Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2016/18, p. 134, pl. 99

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