Robert Mapplethorpe - PHOTOGRAPHS London Wednesday, May 19, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Baudoin Lebon, Paris 

  • Literature

    Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers, Düsseldorf: teNeues, 2006, n.p.

  • Artist Biography

    Robert Mapplethorpe

    American • 1946 - 1989

    After studying drawing, painting and sculpture at the Pratt Institute in the 1960s, Robert Mapplethorpe began experimenting with photography while living in the notorious Chelsea Hotel with Patti Smith. Beginning with Polaroids, he soon moved on to a Hasselblad medium-format camera, which he used to explore aspects of life often only seen behind closed doors.

    By the 1980s Mapplethorpe's focus was predominantly in the studio, shooting portraits, flowers and nudes. His depiction of the human form in formal compositions reflects his love of classical sculpture and his groundbreaking marriage of those aesthetics with often challenging subject matter. Mapplethorpe's style is present regardless of subject matter — from erotic nudes to self-portraits and flowers — as he ceaselessly strove for what he called "perfection of form."

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Roses

1988
Gelatin silver print.
48.6 x 48.6 cm (19 1/8 x 19 1/8 in).
Signed, dated 1989 in ink by Michael Stout, Executor, titled, dated, numbered 5/10 in an unidentified hand in ink and Robert Mapplethorpe copyright credit stamp on the reverse of the flush-mount.
 

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for £8,750

PHOTOGRAPHS

20 May 2010
London