Collection of Georges Bermann Robert Mapplethorpe Orchids 1989 Dye transfer print. 56.5 x 56.5 cm (22 1/4 x 22 1/4 in.) Signed, dated by Michael Ward Stout, Executor, titled, dated, numbered 2/5 in an unidentified hand, all in ink, Estate copyright credit reproduction limitation and signature stamp on the reverse of the flush-mount.
Provenance Christie's, New York, 18 October 2006, lot 196 Literature M. Holborn, D. Levas, eds., Mapplethorpe Flora: The Complete Flowers, Phaidon, 2016, p. 363 Artist Bio 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." View More Works
Collection of Georges Bermann Robert Mapplethorpe Orchids 1989 Dye transfer print. 56.5 x 56.5 cm (22 1/4 x 22 1/4 in.) Signed, dated by Michael Ward Stout, Executor, titled, dated, numbered 2/5 in an unidentified hand, all in ink, Estate copyright credit reproduction limitation and signature stamp on the reverse of the flush-mount.
Provenance Christie's, New York, 18 October 2006, lot 196 Literature M. Holborn, D. Levas, eds., Mapplethorpe Flora: The Complete Flowers, Phaidon, 2016, p. 363 Artist Bio 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." View More Works
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