Robert Mapplethorpe
1985
Torso

Gelatin silver print
8.5 × 38.8 cm (15 3/16 × 15 1/4 in.) (image)
 
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: 2021.28.474
 
Torso of white male with his arms raised upward and body turned slightly to the left. The image is cropped just above his chin and lower waist.
 
Verso, mount: lower center, artist's estate wet stamp in black ink, "© 1985 THE ESTATE OF / ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE. / This photograph was taken in 1985 / and printed in 1985. It may not / be reproduced without written permission. / Michael Ward Stout / Michael Ward Stout, Executor / Estate of Robert Mapplethorpe" [dates and executor signature inscribed in blue ballpoint ink]
 
LL/130987