Sam Wagstaff, 1979

  • Robert Mapplethorpe, American, 1946-1989

Gelatin silver print

  • Image: 13 7/8 × 13 7/8 inches (35.2 × 35.2 cm) Sheet: 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.6 cm)

Founders Society Purchase with funds from Susanne Feld Hilberry and Richard H. Kandarian, Florence and S. Brooks Barron, and Anne Marie MacDonald in memory of Sam Wagstaff

F1988.12

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed and dated, in black pen and ink, on sheet, below image, lower right: Robert Mapplethorpe '79 Signed, in black pen and ink, on mount, bottom center, filling in stamp, verso: Robert Mapplethorpe

Stamp, in black ink, on mount, bottom center, verso: © [1979 (in black pen and ink)] ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE | THIS PHOTOGRAPH MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED | WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION | BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER [ Robert Mapplethorpe (in black pen and ink) ]

Inscribed, in black pen and ink, on sheet, below image, lower left: 3/10 Inscribed, in black pen and ink, on mount, bottom left, verso: Sam Wagstaff Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, bottom left, verso: 277 3/10 Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, bottom right, verso: REF # 5 RMG # 8701.00726

(Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York, USA)

1988-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Barr, Nancy. "The Pleasure of Looking, the Pleasure of Seeing: A Portrait of Samuel J. Wagstaff. Collector of Photographs," Bulletin of the DIA: Portraits 83. No. 1/4. Detroit, (2009): p. 82 (ill.).

Robert Mapplethorpe, Sam Wagstaff, 1979, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Susanne Feld Hilberry and Richard H. Kandarian, Florence and S. Brooks Barron, et al., F1988.12.