Sale 7434
London
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13 November 2007
Price realised
GBP 31,700
Estimate
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946-1989) Tulips, 1988 platinum print signed, dated with copyright insignia and annotated 'Estate of Robert Mappelthorpe' by Michael Ward Stout, Executor, titled, dated and numbered '1/3', '1932' in staff's hands in pencil on verso 19 x 19in. (48.2 x 48.2cm.)
Provenance
With Robert Miller Gallery, New York; acquired by present owner.
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Literature
Mapplethorpe: Pistals, Jonathan Cape, 1996, p.105; Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers, teNeues, 2006, pl.188.
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from The Robert Mapplethorpe Estate.
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