Sale 12204
New York
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5 October 2016
Price realised
USD 6,875
Estimate
Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989) Invitation to Light Gallery opening, January 6, 1973 gelatin silver print from Polaroid negative with adhesive dot embossed photographer's credit (margin); typed, 'Robert Mapplethorpe/Backroom at/LIGHT' with gallery address and hours (verso) image: 3 x 3 3/4 in. (7.6 x 9.5 cm.) sheet: 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (8.9 x 11.3 cm.)
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Literature
Sylvia Wolf, Polaroids: Mapplethorpe, Prestel, Munich, Berlin, London, New York, 2008, pl. 193, p. 233.
On the occasion of his first solo exhibition, Mapplethorpe made hundreds of prints of his image, Untitled (self-portrait), using the original Polaroid negative. Each print was treated with the strategically applied white adhesive dot, enclosed in a protective Polaroid sleeve reading, 'DON'T TOUCH HERE', and sent out in a cream-colored Tiffany envelope as an invitation to the exhibition.
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