Robert Mapplethorpe - Photographs New York Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | Phillips
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    National Gallery of Art, Graphic studio: Contemporary Art from the Collaborative Workshop at the University of South Florida, pls. 143-147
    Sullivan, Legacy of Light, pp. 168-169
    Each citation for various prints

  • 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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Ken Moody Portfolio

1985
Tampa, Florida: Graphicstudio, 1985. Five photogravures with watercolor, screenprint and flocking.
Each approximately 21 1/2 x 17 3/4 in. (54.6 x 45.1 cm)
Each signed and numbered AP 12/12 in pencil in the margin. One from an edition of 60 plus 12 artist's proofs.

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New York Auction 9 October 2024