Bertolami Fine Art - Piazza Lovatelli 1, 00186 Roma
AUCTION 333 – Photographs from important european collections Auction 333 – Photographs from important european collections
Friday 11 April 2025 hours 17:00 (UTC +01:00)
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (New York, 1946 - Boston, 1989) Tarantula 1988 printed in 2005
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (New York, 1946 - Boston, 1989)
Tarantula 1988 printed in 2005
Gelatin silver print
Cm 48 x 48
Limited edition n.3 di 10
Printed on verso “The Estate of Robert Mapplethorpe”
Original provenance: Alison Jacques Gallery, Londra
Robert Mapplethorpe’s distinctive feature is definitely
perfection; a necessary condition for every shot, pursued and
achieved in the great variety of subjects, from classically elegant
nudes to sensual still lifes, from strong sadomasochistic images to the most tender
portraits.
Mapplethorpe transforms the reality that surrounds him into images,
in search of a formal rigor that will then find full
fulfilment in the self-portraits and in the series of nudes.
“I seek the perfection of form. I do it with portraits, I do it
with flowers. There is no difference from one subject to another”
