Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection
Robert Mapplethorpe
Flower Arrangement
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20,000 - 30,000 EUR
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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection
Robert Mapplethorpe
1946 - 1989
Flower Arrangement
gelatin silver print, signed, dated and editioned '3/10' in ink in the margin, flush-mounted, the photographer's copyright stamp, signed and dated in ink, and with title, date, edition, and '[MAP]1643' in ink on the reverse, framed, an Olbricht Collection label on the reverse
image: 19⅜ by 19⅜ in. (49.2 by 49.2 cm.)
frame: 28¾ by 28 in. (73 by 71 cm.)
Executed in 1986.
Christie's Los Angeles, 10 December 1998, Lot 153
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Berlin, Georg Hornemann KG, Obsessed with Beauty, 2017
Mark Holborn and Dimitri Levas, eds., Mapplethorpe (New York, 1992), pl. 263
Robert Mapplethorpe, Pistils (New York, 1996), p. 76
Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers (Düsseldorf, 2006), pl. 131
Paul Martineau and Britt Salvesen, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2016), pl. 145, p. 188
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