Category
Photography
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Type of Artwork
Multiple (1/10)
Signature
verso
Size of the artwork
38.7 x 38.4 cm(15.24 x 15.12 in)
Artwork description

Gelatin silver print, printed 1982, mounted. Framed.

Signed, dated by Michael Ward Stout, Executor, in ink, estate copyright credit reproduction limitation and signature stamp on the reverse of the flush-mount. Number 1 from an edition of 10.
“In session after session, Lisa [Lyon] posed as bride, broad, doll, moll, playgirl, beach-girl, bike-girl, gym-girl, and boy-girl; as frog-person, mud-person, flamenco dancer, spiritism medium, archetypal huntress, circus artiste, snake-woman, society woman, young Christian, and kink.” 
—Bruce Chatwin, An Eye and Some Body, Lady: Lisa Lyon.

Provenance:
- Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.
- Phillips, "SPOTLIGHT: Photographs from A Private London Collection”, 2023.
- Private Collection, Spain.
Literature:
- R. Mapplethorpe, Lady: Lisa Lyon, New York: St. Martin's, 1983, p. 94 (variant).

Robert MAPPLETHORPE
(1946-1989)

Lisa Lyon(1982)

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