Robert Mapplethorpe
1979 (taken) 1996 (print)
Raymond Sheldon

Gelatin silver print
33.4 × 35.6 cm (13 1/8 × 14 in.) (image) 2016.57.345
 
J. Paul Getty Museum
© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Gift of The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Object Number: 2016.57.345
 
Cropped image of black male's bare chest with his arms folded.
 
Verso, mount: lower center, artist's estate wet stamp in black ink, "© 1979 THE ESTATE OF / ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE. / This photograph was taken in 1979 / and printed in 1996. It may not / be reproduced without written permission. / Michael Ward Stout / Michael Ward Stout, Executor / Estate of Robert Mapplethorpe" [dates inscribed in black ballpoint ink and executor signature inscribed in blue ballpoint ink]
 
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