Robert Mapplethorpe
1980
Charles Bowman

Gelatin silver print
35.3 × 35.6 cm (13 7/8 × 14 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: 2016.57.442
 
Cropped nude black male torso with a scar near his pelvis.
 
Verso, mount: lower center, artist's estate wet stamp in black ink, "© 1980 THE ESTATE OF / ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE. / This photograph was taken in 1980 / and printed in 1980. 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/130988