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Robert Mapplethorpe
Eggplant
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- £30,000 - 50,000‡
£38,100
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Platinum-palladium print.
1985
49 x 49.5 cm (19 1/4 x 19 1/2 in.)
Signed, dated, and numbered 2/3 in pencil in the margin; signed, dated in pencil and copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp on the verso.
Appearing at auction for the first time, this work is number 2 from the edition of 3 + 2 APs. As of this writing, the other prints from the edition are held in various collections, including one at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, JAPAN
Appearing at auction for the first time, this work is number 2 from the edition of 3 + 2 APs. As of this writing, the other prints from the edition are held in various collections, including one at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, JAPAN
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Robert Mapplethorpe
American | B. 1946 D. 1989After 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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