Robert Mapplethorpe

Self-Portrait

1988

A person in a black sweater holds a cane topped with a small skull, looking directly ahead.
A person in a black sweater holds a cane topped with a small skull, looking directly ahead.
Recto

Not on view

Date
1988

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 24 3/4 × 19 7/8 in. (62.9 × 50.5 cm) Image: 23 1/16 × 19 1/4 in. (58.6 × 48.9 cm) Mount: 24 3/4 × 19 7/8 × 1/16 in. (62.9 × 50.5 × 0.2 cm)

Accession number
2019.474

Edition
1/10

Credit line
Gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection

Rights and reproductions
© The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission.

API
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