Robert Mapplethorpe, Skull

1988
Gelatin silver print.
48.6 x 48.9 cm (19 1/8 x 19 1/4 in.)
Signed, dated by Michael Ward Stout, Executor, in ink and estate copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp on the reverse of the flush-mount. Number 5 from an edition of 10.

Provenance:
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Midwest

Literature:
J. Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1991, back cover
G. Celant, Mapplethorpe: The Nymph Photography, Milan: Skira, 2014, pl. 107
Robert Mapplethorpe and The Classical Tradition, New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2005, pl. 117
Mapplethorpe, New York: Random House, 1992, p. 305