ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946-1989)
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946-1989)
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946-1989)
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ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946-1989)

Flowers, 1983

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ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946-1989)
Flowers, 1983
ten photogravures, each mounted on board
each signed and numbered '25⁄40' in pencil (margin)
each image: 21 5⁄8 x 17 5⁄8 in. (54.6 x 44.7 cm.)
each sheet: 31 ¼ x 24 5⁄8 in. (80 x 62.2 cm.)
These works are each number twenty-five from an edition of forty, plus ten artist's proofs, from Flowers (New York: Barbara Gladstone, Deli Sacilotto, & Robert Mapplethorpe, 1983, printed by Deli Sacilotto.)
Provenance
Hamiltons Gallery, London;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2007.
Literature
John Ashbery, Pistils, Jonathan Cape, London, 1996, p. 19, 21, 23, 25-27, 29-31.
Herbert Muschamp, Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers, teNeues, Dusseldorf, New York, 2006, pl. 76-85.

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