Details
| Artist | Robert Mapplethorpe, American, 1946-1989 |
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| Date | 1979 |
| Medium | gelatin silver print |
| Dimensions | Image: 13 7/8 × 13 7/8 inches (35.2 × 35.2 cm) Sheet: 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.6 cm) |
| Credit Line | 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 |
| Accession Number | F1988.12 |
| Department | Prints, Drawings & Photographs |
| Not On View |
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
| Signed | 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 |
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| Marks | 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) ] |
| Inscriptions | 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 |
Provenance
(Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York, USA);
1988-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1988-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
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.).
