Robert Mapplethorpe
Ermès, 1988
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board
image: 19 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches
sheet/flush mount: 23 3/4 x 19 7/8 inches
This work is number 5 from an edition of 10, with 2 Aritst's proofs
titled, dated and numbered "1894 Ermes 1988 5/10" in ink on the flush mount, verso
numbered in pencil "RMG#M8811.064.C" on the flush mount, verso
With copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp on the reverse of the flush mount as follows: "© 1988 Robert Mapplethorpe This photograph was taken in 1988 and printed in 1988. It may not be reproduced without written permission by the photographer "Robert Mapplethorpe"
image: 19 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches
sheet/flush mount: 23 3/4 x 19 7/8 inches
This work is number 5 from an edition of 10, with 2 Aritst's proofs
titled, dated and numbered "1894 Ermes 1988 5/10" in ink on the flush mount, verso
numbered in pencil "RMG#M8811.064.C" on the flush mount, verso
With copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp on the reverse of the flush mount as follows: "© 1988 Robert Mapplethorpe This photograph was taken in 1988 and printed in 1988. It may not be reproduced without written permission by the photographer "Robert Mapplethorpe"
Provenance
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the current owner in 1989
Literature
Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition: Photographs and Mannerist Prints, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation/D.A.P., 2004, p. 25., another impression illustrated
Exhibitions
Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition: Photographs and Mannerist Prints, Guggenheim Museum, New York, July 1–August 28, 2005, Deutsche Guggenheim, July 24–October 17, 2004; Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, October 23, 2006–February 18, 2007, another impression exhibited
Selected Museum Collections
Getty Museum, Los Angeles




