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Robert Mapplethorpe
Andy Warhol
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- £30,000 - 50,000‡
£37,500
Lot Details
Gelatin silver print.
1986
38.4 x 38.4 cm (15 1/8 x 15 1/8 in.)
Signed, dated and inscribed in ink in the margin; numbered AP 1/2 in ink on the reverse of the flush-mount. One from an edition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofs.
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'For Robert, the most important and interesting of them all was Andy Warhol, documenting the human mise-en-scène in his silver-lined Factory'
Patti Smith
Additional prints of this image have been acquired by the following institutions: Guggenheim Museum, New York; and Getty Museum/LACMA, Los Angeles.
Patti Smith
Additional prints of this image have been acquired by the following institutions: Guggenheim Museum, New York; and Getty Museum/LACMA, Los Angeles.
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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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