Bronze Sculpture for Sale
Ken and Lydia and Tyler negative, 1985
Photography : silver print · 38.1 x 38.4 x 0.5 cm 15 x 15.1 x 0.2 inch · Ready to hang
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Photography : numbered and limited to 10 copies
Condition
Artwork sold in perfect condition, framed, ready to hang
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Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the gallery
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Dimensions ( cm • inch )
38.1 x 38.4 x 0.5 cm 15 x 15.1 x 0.2 inch Height x Width x Depth
Artwork dimensions including frame
60 x 60 x 2 cm 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
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Description
Image 15 × 15 1/16 in. (38.1 × 38.4 cm); Frame 23 5/8 × 23 5/8 in. (60 × 60 cm)
Description
Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989) was an American photographer best known for his black-and-white imagery. His work encompassed a wide range of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits, and still-life compositions. He is also known for his controversial photographs documenting the gay male BDSM subculture in New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Robert Mapplethorpe was born in 1946 in New York and died due to AIDS in 1989 in Boston. Mapplethorpe is a major photographer, known for his black and white pictures, which enhance the beauty of both people and objects.
In the 60's, he studied painting, drawing and sculpture. In 1967, he became friends with Patti Smith, who had a major influence on his work, throughout his life. It was only in 1970 that Mapplethorpe tried Polaroid photography, which led him to exhibit for the first time in New York.
Fascinated by this tool, he continued this approach by magnifying male and female nudes of antique statues. He managed to highlight the muscle structure of his subjects, like his wife Lisa Lyon. He sculpted bodies along with his lens, and managed to glorify the beauty of his subjects.
In his photos, Mapplethorpe most of all tried to achieve aesthetic perfection. For this, he focused his work on body and still life. By taking pictures of the features of the human body, the artist highlighted the shapes of the body, as if they were delicate flowers.
Mapplethorpe's work is marked by a brutal representation of a lustful desire, though a poetic and a splendid one.
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