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In session after session, Lisa posed as bride, broad, doll, moll, playgirl, beach-girl, bike-girl, gym-girl, and boy-girl; as frog-person, mud-person, flamenco dancer, spiritualist medium, archetypal huntress, circus artiste, snake-woman, society woman, young Christian, and kink.
—Bruce Chatwin
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946-1989)
Lisa Lyon, 1980
Details
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946-1989)
Lisa Lyon, 1980
gelatin silver print
signed, dated and numbered '3/15' in ink (in the margin); signed, title, date, number '3/15', MAP notation '572' in pencil/ink and copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
image: 14 x 14in. (35.5 x 35.5cm.)
sheet/flush-mount: 20 x 16in. (50.7 x 40.5cm.)
Lisa Lyon, 1980
gelatin silver print
signed, dated and numbered '3/15' in ink (in the margin); signed, title, date, number '3/15', MAP notation '572' in pencil/ink and copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
image: 14 x 14in. (35.5 x 35.5cm.)
sheet/flush-mount: 20 x 16in. (50.7 x 40.5cm.)
Provenance
With Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Literature
Mapplethorpe, Lady Lisa Lyon, Little, Brown and Co., 1996, p. 21
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