Robert Mapplethorpe
Self Portrait, 1986
Photo engraving, proof for 'A Season in Hell'
Photo: 30.5 x 21.6cm (12 x 8.5in)
Frame: 40 x 30.5 2.5cm (15.75 x 12.01 x 0.98in)
Unique #215 (RMP1437)
Signed by the artist and accompanied by certificate of authenticity
Frame: 40 x 30.5 2.5cm (15.75 x 12.01 x 0.98in)
Unique #215 (RMP1437)
Signed by the artist and accompanied by certificate of authenticity
Copyright The Artist
‘Beauty and the Devil are the same thing.’ ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
‘Beauty and the Devil are the same thing.’ ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
Provenance
Robert Mapplethorpe FoundationThaddaeus Ropac, London 2022
Exhibitions
by a thread (5-29 October 2022), A.I. LondonLiterature
Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell (New York, 1986), unpaginatedRobert Mapplethorpe, Mapplethorpe Portraits (London: National Portrait Gallery, 1988), p. 33, pl. 13
Arthur C. Danto, Mapplethorpe (New York, 1992), pl. 42
Germano Celant, Mapplethorpe (London: Hayward Gallery, 1992), cover and p. 33
Robert Mapplethorpe: Mirrors (New York, 1993), unpaginated
Patricia Morrisroe, 'The Demon Romantics,' Vanity Fair, July 1995, p. 122
Patricia Morrisroe, Mapplethorpe: A Biography (New York, 1995), p. 228 (variant)
Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell (Boston, 1997), cover
Love's Body: Rethinking Naked and Nude in Photography (Tokyo, 1998), p. 74, pl. 67
Jérôme Neutres, ed., Robert Mapplethorpe (Paris: Grand Palais, 2014), p. 25
Germano Celant, Mapplethorpe: The Nymph Photography (Milan, 2014), p. 66
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