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    13 November 2007

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    • ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946-1989
    Lot 47

    ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946-1989)

    Tulips, 1988

    Price realised

    GBP 31,700

    Estimate

    GBP 30,000 - GBP 40,000

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    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 and exhibited

    Literature

    Mapplethorpe: Pistals, Jonathan Cape, 1996, p.105; Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers, teNeues, 2006, pl.188.


    Lot Essay

    This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from The Robert Mapplethorpe Estate.

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    Special Notice

    VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium


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