Art of Collecting: A Pacific Island Connoisseur of Art and Design
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
Flowers, 1987
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ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
Flowers, 1987
five photogravures from an original suite of ten, each signed and numbered ‘20/25’ in pencil (margin)
each framed: 38 1/2 x 27 1/2 x 2 in. (97.7 x 69.8 x 5 cm.)
These works are each number twenty from an edition of twenty-five, plus five artist's proofs, from Flowers (New York: Hotel 21, Robert Miller Gallery and Robert Mapplethorpe, 1987, printed by Neelon Crawford 1988).
Flowers, 1987
five photogravures from an original suite of ten, each signed and numbered ‘20/25’ in pencil (margin)
each framed: 38 1/2 x 27 1/2 x 2 in. (97.7 x 69.8 x 5 cm.)
These works are each number twenty from an edition of twenty-five, plus five artist's proofs, from Flowers (New York: Hotel 21, Robert Miller Gallery and Robert Mapplethorpe, 1987, printed by Neelon Crawford 1988).
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, April 23, 2003, lot 276;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Robert Mapplethorpe and John Ashbery, Pistils, Random House, New York, 1996, pp. 150, 153, 155, 157 and dust jacket.