Aug 18, 2022 - Sale 2613

Sale 2613 - Lot 360

Price Realized: $ 7,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000

MARK MORRISROE (1959-1989)


Self-portrait.
Unique Polaroid, the image measuring 95x73 mm; 3 3/4x2 7/8 inches, the sheet slightly larger, with Morrisroe's Estate stamp with Pat Hearn's signature and dates in pencil, and the numeric notation 101 in pencil, on verso. Circa 1985.

Additional Details

Mark Morrisroe was a performance artist and photographer involved with the Boston punk movement of the 1970s and 1980s, and described by Nan Goldin as "Boston's first punk." His Polaroids are autobiographical and diaristic in nature, including self-portraits and intimate images of friends and lovers.