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Property from an Important Swiss Collection | Provenant d’une importante collection suisse

Robert Mapplethorpe

Irises

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Property from an Important Swiss Collection


Robert Mapplethorpe

1946 - 1989

Irises


signed, dated 87 and numbered 15/30 in pencil (in the margin)

large-format photogravure

87 x 82 cm; 34¼ x 32¼ in.

Executed in 1987, this work is number 15 from an edition of 30.


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Provenant d’une importante collection suisse


Robert Mapplethorpe

1946 - 1989

Irises


signé, daté 87 et numéroté 15/30 au crayon (dans la marge)

photogravure grand format

87 x 82 cm; 34¼ x 32¼ in.

Exécutée en 1987, cette oeuvre est le numéro 15 d'une édition en 30 exemplaires.

USF Graphicstudio, Tampa, Florida

Hindman, 14 December 2016, lot 221

Private Collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above by the present owner

Els Barents, Robert Mapplethorpe: Ten By Ten, Munich 1988, no. 25, illustrated

Robert Mapplethorpe and Janet Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art 1988, pl. 89, illustrated

Germano Celant, Mapplethorpe, London: Hayward Gallery 1992, p. 243, illustrated

Robert Mapplethorpe, Pistils, New York 1996, p. 79, illustratead

Herbert Muschamp, Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers, New York 2006, pl. 138, illustrated

Exh. cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Polaroids: Mapplethorpe, 2007, fig. 13, p. 34, illustrated

Exh. cat., Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs, 2016, pl. 141, p. 184, illustrated

Robert Mapplethorpe, Mapplethorpe, London 2020, p. 303, illustrated