Lot Essay
Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe
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Calla Lily, 1988
Details
Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989)
Calla Lily, 1988
dye-transfer print, flush-mounted on board
annotated 'II 2' in black crayon (margin); signed by Michael Ward Stout, Executor, dated in ink in Estate copyright credit stamp, and titled, dated, numbered '6/7' in ink (verso)
image: 22 1/2 x 22 in. (57.2 x 56 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 29 3/4 x 23 7/8 in. (75.6 x 60.7 cm.)
This work is number 6 from the edition of 7.
Calla Lily, 1988
dye-transfer print, flush-mounted on board
annotated 'II 2' in black crayon (margin); signed by Michael Ward Stout, Executor, dated in ink in Estate copyright credit stamp, and titled, dated, numbered '6/7' in ink (verso)
image: 22 1/2 x 22 in. (57.2 x 56 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 29 3/4 x 23 7/8 in. (75.6 x 60.7 cm.)
This work is number 6 from the edition of 7.
Provenance
The Robert Mapplethorpe Estate;
Acquired from the above by the present owner, early 1990s.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, early 1990s.
Literature
Patti Smith, Flowers, Mapplethorpe, Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Company, Boston, New York, London, 1990, pl. 39.