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Robert Michael Mapplethorpe (/ ˈ m eɪ p əl ˌ θ ɔːr p / MAY-pəl-thorp; November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs.
Robert Mapplethorpe: Self Portrait: $87,500: New record for the edition Oct. 2014: Maria Pergay: Flying Carpet, daybed: $162,500: New record for the design at auction Feb. 2014: Ruth Asawa: Untitled S.437 (Hanging, Seven-Lobed, Two-Part Continuous Form within a Form with Two Small Spheres) $1,430,000: Tied world record for any work by the ...
The Perfect Moment was the most comprehensive retrospective of works by New York photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.The show spanned twenty-five years of his career, featuring celebrity portraits, self-portraits, interracial figure studies, floral still lifes, homoerotic images, and collages.
The controversial artist is being celebrated in a major new exhibition at NYC's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum—three decades after his death—that calls for a rethinking of his oeuvre
The idea of a federally owned national portrait gallery can be traced back to 1886, when Robert C. Winthrope, president of the Massachusetts Historical Society, visited the National Portrait Gallery in London. Upon his return to the United States, Winthrope began pressing for the establishment of a similar museum in the United States. [2]
Samuel Wagstaff was born on November 4, 1921, in New York City.Wagstaff, a grandson of New York State Senator Alfred Wagstaff Jr., [1] was the son of Samuel J. Wagstaff Sr., a wealthy lawyer from an old Social Register family, and his second wife, Olga May, born May Emilia Piorkowska (or Piorkowski) in New York in 1894, [2] [3] a fashion illustrator who had worked for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue ...