With a number of co-publishing projects on the go and set for release in 2015 under our studio’s imprint ‘Platinum Print Editions’, I am always interested in viewing portfolios of platinum prints by different artists, not only to see how they look in person but also how they are presented. It is perhaps the most important work by Mapplethorpe to come up for public sale to date, given the artists’ relationship and the role that they both played subsequently in the development of art history.’ The present lot, Andy Warhol, was purchased from the Miller Gallery exhibition at that time by the current owner. I couldn’t have not been – because I think he’s the most important pop artist – but I’m not sure how.’ … I think I was subconsciously influenced by Warhol. ‘I don’t think I would have done what I’ve done if Warhol had not appeared as an influence at some time. In an interview with Janet Kardon at that time, Mapplethorpe pointed out: Subsequent to that exhibition, Mapplethorpe took Warhol’s portrait after which this, perhaps the most complex – in all senses – of the unique works from this period was created and exhibited in 1987. H29)Ĭoincidentally, in 1986, shortly before Andy Warhol’s death, an exhibition (the last of his work during his lifetime) of stitched photographs was also exhibited at the Robert Miller Gallery. The resulting diptychs and triptychs recall Minimalist painting more than they resemble photographs.’ (The New York Times, May 3, 1987, p. More often than not they are flanked by a panel (sometimes two) of understated but luxurious fabric. Printed on linen cloth using the archaic platinum process, they are mounted on stretchers, like paintings, and float within frames of thick, black wood. Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs, now on view at the Robert Miller Gallery 1 (41 East 57th Street, through May 23), are a case in point. For a photograph to succeed in the art world, all the signs this spring suggest, it needs to be an object. ‘Suddenly, it is no longer enough for a photograph to be a picture of something. The exhibition was mentioned in the following excerpt from an article by Andy Grundberg in The New York Times: ‘In 1987, Robert Mapplethorpe mounted an exhibition at the Robert Miller Gallery of photographic constructions – single panel, diptychs and triptychs of platinum prints on linen or canvas which were often accompanied by a panel of silk and then put into frames also designed by Mapplethorpe. In an upcoming post I will be talking to Martin about what it was like to work with Mapplethorpe and also details about printing on such a substrate as canvas.Īdditional Details about the print when it was sold at auction This unique print was created by master platinum printer Martin Axon in 1987, who printed many of Mapplethorpe’s platinum prints before his death in 1989. Unique platinum print on Canvas/linen with 4 silk panels
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