Robert Mapplethorpe - Important Photographs from the Collection of Dr. Anthony Terrana New York Tuesday, April 2, 2013 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, New York
    ARTcetera Auction for the Aids Action Committee, Boston, 1990

  • Literature

    Schirmer/Mosel, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Black Book, p. 84

  • 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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IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. ANTHONY TERRANA

102

Ken Moody

1983
Gelatin silver print
15 3/8 x 15 1/8 in. (39.1 x 38.4 cm)
Signed, dated by Michael Ward Stout, Executor, in ink, Robert Mapplethorpe copyright reproduction limitation and signature stamp on the reverse of the flush-mount. One from an edition of 10 plus artist’s proofs.

Estimate
$7,000 - 9,000 

Sold for $10,625

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Important Photographs from the Collection of Dr. Anthony Terrana

2 & 3 April 2013
New York