Details
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
Derrick Cross, 1983
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board
signed, dated and numbered '4/10' in ink (margin); signed and dated in ink in photographer's copyright credit stamp and titled, dated and numbered in ink (flush mount, verso); credited, titled, dated and numbered on affixed gallery label (frame backing board)
image: 15 1/4 x 15 1/4 in. (38.8 x 38.8 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 19 7/8 x 15 7/8 in. (50.4 x 40.4 cm.)
This work is number four from an edition of ten.
Provenance
Christie's, New York, April 29, 1999, lot 355;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Sandy Nairne et al., Robert Mapplethorpe, 1970-1983, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1983, p. 43.
Ntozake Shange, Robert Mapplethorpe: Black Book, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1986, pl. 2.
Ikuroh Takano, Robert Mapplethorpe, Parco CO.,LTD., Tokyo, 1987, n.p.
Richard Marshall, Robert Mapplethorpe, Whitney Museum of Art / Little, Brown and Company, New York, 1988, p. 111.
Arthur C. Danto, Mapplethorpe, Random House, New York, 1992, p. 170.
Germano Celant et al., Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition: Photographs and Mannerist Prints, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, 2004, pl. 22.

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