ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
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Always in Style: Property from the Collection of Herbert Kasper
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)

Thomas, 1987

Details
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
Thomas, 1987
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board
signed by Michael Ward Stout, Executor, and dated in ink in Estate copyright credit stamp, and titled, dated and numbered '8/10' and ‘1729’ in ink (flush mount, verso): credited, titled, dated and numbered on affixed gallery label (frame backing board)
image: 19 x 19 in. (48.2 x 48.2 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 23 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. (60.3 x 50.1 cm.)
This work is number eight from an edition of ten.
Provenance
Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels;
Christie’s, New York, April, 23, 2007-April 24, 2007, lot 246;
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2014.
Literature
Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Bellport Press, New York, 1987, cover.
Richard Marshall, Robert Mapplethorpe, Whitney Museum of Art/ Little, Brown and Company, New York, 1988, p. 171.
Arthur C. Danto, Mapplethorpe, Random House, New York, 1992, p. 235.
Germano Celant et al., Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition: Photographs and Mannerist Prints, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, 2004, pl. 44.

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