Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989), Self-Portrait

Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989)
Self-Portrait
signed and dated 'Mapplethorpe '80' (lower right); numbered '7/15' (lower left); signed and dated '1980 Robert Mapplethorpe' (in photographer's copyright credit stamp on the reverse of the flush mount)
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board
image: 14 x 14in. (35.5 x 35.5cm.)
sheet: 19 5/8 x 17 7/8in. (49.8 x 40.2cm.)
Photographed in 1980 and printed in 1980, this work is number seven from an edition of fifteen plus three artist's proofs

Other gelatin silver prints from the edition are in the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Artists Rooms Collection, jointly owned by Tate, London and the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and the joint collection of the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.

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Provenance
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 17 October 2003, lot 285.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Pre-Lot Text
FOUR SELF-PORTRAITS BY ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE

Literature
K. Wise (ed.), Portrait:Theory: Photographs and Essays by David Attie, Chuck Close, Jan Groover, Evelyn Hofer, Lotte Jacobi, Gerard Malanga, Robert Mapplethorpe and James van der Zee, New York 1981, p. 141 (another example illustrated).
S. Sontag, Robert Mapplethorpe: Certain People: A Book of Portraits, Pasadena 1985 (another example illustrated, unpaged; another example illustrated on the front cover).
M. Holborn and D. Levas (eds.), Mapplethorpe, London 1995, p. 39 (another example illustrated).
G. Celant (ed.), Looking at Fashion, exh. cat. Florence, Biennale di Firenze 1996, p. 222 (another example illustrated).
R. Meyer, Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in 20th Century Art, New York 2002.
K. Posso, Artful Seduction: Homosexuality and the Problematics of Exile, Oxford 2003.
G. Celant (ed.), Robert Mapplethorpe: Tra antico e moderno: Un' antologia, exh. cat. Turin, Palazzo della Promotrice, 2006, p. 462 (another example illustrated, p. 174).
Robert Mapplethorpe, exh. cat. Milan, Forma Foundation for Photography, 2011.
G. Celant, Mapplethorpe: The Nymph Photography, Milan 2014, p. 189, no. 111 (another example illustrated, p. 135)
R. Meyer and J-O Steilhaug (eds.), Mapplethorpe + Munch, exh. cat. Oslo, Munch Museum, 2016.

Exhibited
Amsterdam, Galerie Jurka, Black Males, 1980 (another example exhibited).
San Francisco, Lawson/DeCelle Gallery, Robert Mapplethorpe: Blacks and Whites, 1980 (another example exhibited).
Frankfurt, Kunstverein, Robert Mapplethorpe, 1981 (another example exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Graz, Fotogalerie Forum Stadtpark; Vienna, Modern Art Galerie; Hamburg, PPS Galerie F.C. Gundlach; Basel, Kunsthalle; Munich, Kunstverein and Zurich, Nikon Foto Galerie.
Pully/Lausanne, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Fondation Edelman, Mapplethorpe, 1991 (another example exhibited).
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Robert Mapplethorpe, curated by Germano Celant, 1992-1997 (another example exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Venice, Centro di Documentazione di Palazzo Fortuny; Turin, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea; Stockholm, Moderna Museet; Prato, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea; Manila, Residence of Embassador Negroponte; Prato, Museo Pecci Prato; Turku, Finland, Turun Taidemuseo; Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts; Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró; Vienna, KunstHausWien; Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art; Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia; Wellington, New Zealand, City Gallery Wellington; London, Hayward Gallery; Dublin, Gallery of Photography; São Paulo, Museo de Art Moderna and Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie.
Paris, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Les Autoportraits de Mapplethorpe, 1996, no. 23 (another example exhibited and illustrated, unpaged).
Milan, Gio Marconi Gallery, Robert Mapplethorpe, 1996 (another example exhibited).
Shinjuku, Japan, Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Robert Mapplethorpe, 1996-1997 (another example exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Osaka, Takashimaya “Grand Hall”; Fukushima, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art; Asahikawa, Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art; Yokohama, Sogo Museum of Art and Kagawa, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art.
New York, Guggenheim Museum, Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography, 1997, p. 102 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Atlanta, Fay Gold Gallery, Photographs: 1981-1985, 1999.
Valencia, Centre Cultural La Beneficencia, Robert Mapplethorpe, 1999 (another example exhibited).
Sapporo, Japan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Robert Mapplethorpe Retrospective, 2002-2003 (another example exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, Daimaru Museum and Shinsaibashi-Osaka, Daimaru Museum.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition: Photographs and Mannerist Prints, 2004-2007, p. 34 (another example exhibited and illustrated). This exhibition later travelled to Berlin, Deutsche Guggenheim; St Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum; Moscow, Moscow House of Photography and Las Vegas, The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum.
London, Alison Jacques Gallery, Robert Mapplethorpe, curated by David Hockney, 2005 (another example exhibited).
Havana, Fototeca de Cuba, Sacred and Profane: Robert Mapplethorpe, 2005 (another example exhibited).
Munich, Bernheimer Fine Old Masters, Robert Mapplethorpe: Pictures, 2006 (another example exhibited).
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Robert Mapplethorpe, 2006, no. 38 (another example exhibited and illustrated, unpaged).
Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland, The Naked Portrait, 2007 (another example exhibited).
Palma de Mallorca, Es Baluard - Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Robert Mapplethorpe, 2009, p. 141, no. 29 (another example exhibited and illustrated, unpaged). This exhibition later travelled to Ljubljana, TR3 Gallery and National Gallery and Malaga, CAC Málaga: Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga.
Inverness, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Artist Rooms Tour: Robert Mapplethorpe, 2009-2010 (another example exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Sheffield, Museums Sheffield and Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery.
Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Robert Mapplethrope: Eros and Order, 2010 (another example exhibited).
Paris, Maison Européene de la Photographie, Autour de l’Extreme, 2010-2011. This exhibition later travelled to Rio de Janeiro, Instituto Moreira Salles (another example exhibited).
Dusseldorf, NRW-Forum Kultur Wirtschaft, Robert Mapplethorpe, 2010 (another example exhibited).
Berlin, C/O Berlin, Robert Mapplethorpe, 2011 (another example exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Stockholm, Fotografiska and Milan, Forma Foundation for Photography.
New York, Leila Heller Gallery, The Mask & The Mirror: Curated by Shirin Neshat, 2011 (another example exhibited).
Zurich, Mai 36 Galerie, Mapplethorpe: Pure, 2012 (another example exhibited).
Dunoon, Scotland, Dunoon Burgh Hall, Artist Rooms Scottish Tour: Robert Mapplethorpe, 2012-2013. This exhibition later travelled to Linlithgow, The Gallery at Linlithgow Burgh Halls, Perth, Perth Museum & Art Gallery and Galashiels, Old Gala House (another example exhibited).
New York, Skarstedt Gallery, Robert Mapplethorpe Self-Portraits, 2013.
Paris, Grand Palais, Robert Mapplethorpe, 2014-2015, p. 267, no. 136 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 167). This exhibition later travelled to Helsinki, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art.
Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s, 2014-2015 (another example exhibited).
Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Warhol & Mapplethorpe Guise & Dolls, 2015-2016, pl. 73, (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 130).
Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium, 2016-2018, p. 305, no. 85 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 115).