ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE JAPANESE COLLECTION
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)

Frank Diaz, 1979

Details
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946–1989)
Frank Diaz, 1979
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board
signed, dated and numbered '3/10' in pencil (margin); signed and dated in ink in photographer's copyright credit stamp, and titled, dated, numbered '3/10', '222' in ink (flush mount, verso); credited, titled, dated and numbered on affixed gallery label (frame backing board)
image: 13 7/8 x 13 7/8 in. (35.3 x 35.3 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 19 3/4 x 15 7/8 in. (50.1 x 40.3 cm.)
This work is number three from an edition of ten.
Provenance
Private collection, Japan;
acquired from the above by the present owner, early 2000s.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Robert Mapplethorpe 19701983, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1983, p. 35.
Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Mapplethorpe: Certain People, A Book of Portraits, Twelvetrees Press, Santa Fe, 1985, p. 14.
Arthur C. Danto, Playing with the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1996, p. 94.
Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Mapplethorpe: Pictures, Arena Editions, Santa Fe, 1999, p. 83.

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