May 14, 2009 - Sale 2180

Sale 2180 - Lot 376

Price Realized: $ 5,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
MAPPLETHORPE, ROBERT (1946-1989)
Phyllis Tweel. Silver print, 13 3/4 inches square (35 cm. square), with Mapplethorpe's signature, date, and inscription, "For Phyllis," in pencil, on recto. 1979
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Gifted by Mapplethorpe to the sitter, Phyllis Tweel, and accompanied by a letter of authenticity from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.


Another print of this photograph was included in the exhibit "Eye to Eye, Robert Mapplethorpe Selected by Cindy Sherman" at the Sean Kelly Gallery, in 2003.