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Lot 347
Description:
Robert Mapplethorpe (American, 1946-1989), "Tampa Orchid", photogravure/screenprint on paper, pencil-signed, dated "1986", and numbered "47/60", 21 3/8 in. x 35 1/8 in., attractively matted and framed.
- Notes: Note: In the forward to the 1994 book Flowers: Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith writes of her friend and his work: "He came, in time, to embrace the flower as the embodiment of all the contradictions reveling within. Their sleekness, their fullness. Humble narcissus. Passionate zen. He found them to be worthy conspirators in the courting and development of conflicting emotions. He also found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. Often they were symbolic of him; his processes. Modeled in geometric shade. Modified in a famous vase and inevitably turned in the realm of their own simplicity-the blossoming of the mystifying aspects of the pure. And the eye became a body, the murky heart of a rose. The sinister shadow of an orchid. Or the indolent poppy balanced behind the ear of Baudelaire."
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July 17, 2010 10:00 AM CDT
New Orleans, LA, US
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