Robert Mapplethorpe
Self-Portrait
Estimate: 300.000 - 500.000 GBP
Price realised: 548.750 GBP
Price realised: 548.750 GBP
Description
platinum print
signed by Michael Ward Stout, Executor, the Estate of Robert Mapplethorpe, date of signature, titled, dated, numbered and copyright credit in pencil ‘Michael Ward Stout/Executor the Estate of Robert Mapplethorpe, January 11, 1996 Self Portrait, 1988 3/3 AP-P1860 The Estate of Robert Mapplethorpe’ (verso)
image: 23 x 19 in. (58.3 x 48.2 cm.)
sheet: 26¾ x 22¼ in. (68 x 55.5 cm.)
Photographed and printed in 1988, this work is number three from an edition of three plus one artist's proof
Other platinum prints from the edition are in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and the Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York.
Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris. | Acquired from the above by the present owner in October 1995.
signed by Michael Ward Stout, Executor, the Estate of Robert Mapplethorpe, date of signature, titled, dated, numbered and copyright credit in pencil ‘Michael Ward Stout/Executor the Estate of Robert Mapplethorpe, January 11, 1996 Self Portrait, 1988 3/3 AP-P1860 The Estate of Robert Mapplethorpe’ (verso)
image: 23 x 19 in. (58.3 x 48.2 cm.)
sheet: 26¾ x 22¼ in. (68 x 55.5 cm.)
Photographed and printed in 1988, this work is number three from an edition of three plus one artist's proof
Other platinum prints from the edition are in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and the Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York.
Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris. | Acquired from the above by the present owner in October 1995.
A top price for Robert Mapplethorpe
In October 2017 Christies in London held the auction Masterpieces of Design & Photography, which included the work Self-Portrait by Robert Mapplethorpe. Here, the upper estimate of GBP 500,000.00 was slightly exceeded - the artwork found a new owner for GBP 548,750.00 (€ 625,682.41). With this result, Self-Portrait is even the most expensive work of art by Robert Mapplethorpe that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Robert Mapplethorpe
Im Oktober 2017 führte Christies in London die Auktion Masterpieces of Design & Photography durch, in der auch die Arbeit Self-Portrait von Robert Mapplethorpe zur Versteigerung kam. Dabei wurde der obere Schätzpreis von GBP 500.000,00 leicht übertroffen – das Kunstwerk fand für GBP 548.750,00 (€ 625.682,41) einen neuen Besitzer. Mit diesem Ergebnis ist Self-Portrait sogar das teuerste Kunstwerk von Robert Mapplethorpe, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
Robert Mapplethorpe - Auction history
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