Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989)

SELF-PORTRAIT, 1985. Vintage silver gelatin print, printed 1985, flush-mounted to board, image size 38.5 x 38.5cm, board size 50.5 x 40.5cm, signed by the photographer in ink within the photographer's copyright credit stamp board verso, additionally titled, dated, editioned 10/10, and numbered '1583' in ink board verso. Framed.

Literature:
Barents, Robert Mapplethorpe: Ten By Ten. Munich: Schirmer-Mosel, 1988, pl.44
Danto, Mapplethorpe. New York: Random House, 1992, p.297
Les autoportraits de Mapplethorpe. Paris: Galerie Baudoin Lebon, 1996, pl.40
Mapplethorpe [Exhibition Catalogue]. Humlebaek: Louisiana Museum, 1992, p.229
Robert Mapplethorpe: tra antico e modern - Un'antologia [Exhibition Catalogue]. Turin: Palazzina della promotrice delle Belle Art, 2005, p.395.
Martineau & Salvesen, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs [Exhibition Catalogue]. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2016, cover image, pl.138, p.181