Robert Mapplethorpe

Muscleman
1969

An artwork featuring a collage of a muscular lower body wearing wrestling attire with a large black star covering the torso area. The background consists of a grid paper with abstract geometric shapes and smaller stars. The piece has a hand-drawn aesthetic with visible pencil lines and color shading, and it's signed and dated at the bottom right.
An artwork featuring a collage of a muscular lower body wearing wrestling attire with a large black star covering the torso area. The background consists of a grid paper with abstract geometric shapes and smaller stars. The piece has a hand-drawn aesthetic with visible pencil lines and color shading, and it's signed and dated at the bottom right.

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Date
1969

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Graphite pencil, colored pencil, wax crayon, and collage on paper mounted on board

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 11 3/4 × 8 9/16in. (29.8 × 21.7 cm)

Accession number
98.3

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation, Inc.

Rights and reproductions
© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission

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