Details
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946-1989)
Calla Lily
signed, dated and numbered '2⁄10 Robert Mapplethorpe '87' (lower edge); signed and dated in photographer's copyright credit stamp, titled, dated and numbered 'Calla Lily, 1987, 2⁄10' (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print, flush mounted on board
image: 19 1⁄8 x 19 ¼in. (48.6 x 48.8cm.)
sheet: 23 ¾ x 19 7/8in. (60.4 x 50.4cm.)
Executed in 1987, this work is number two from an edition of ten
Provenance
Robert Miller Gallery, New York.
Galerie Eric Van de Weghe, Brussels.
Roger and Josette Vanthournout, Belgium, by whom acquired from the above, and thence by descent.
Literature
P. Smith, Flowers Mapplethorpe, Boston 1990, pl. 36 (colour variant illustrated in colour, p. 77).
Mark Holborn and Dimitri Levas, eds., Mapplethorpe Pistils, New York 1996, p. 173 (colour variant illustrated in colour, p. 147).
E. Barents, Robert Mapplethorpe Ten by Ten, Munich 1996, p. 55 (colour variant illustrated in colour, front page and p. 55).
H. Muschamp, Robert Mapplethorpe The Complete Flowers, Düsseldorf 2006, pl. 148 (another from the edition illustrated, unpaged).
M. Holborn and Dimitri Levas, eds., Robert Mapplethorpe Flora The Complete Flowers, London 2016, pp. 347 and 361 (colour variant illustrated in colour, p. 327).
M. Holborn and Dimitri Levas, eds., Robert Mapplethorpe Flora The Complete Flowers, London 2024, pp. 347 and 361 (colour variant illustrated in colour, p. 327).
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Robert Mapplethorpe, 1988, pl. 23 (colour variant exhibited, illustrated in colour, unpaged and on front cover).

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