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Robert Mapplethorpe

Leigh Lee (Back)

1979

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Robert Mapplethorpe

Leigh Lee (Back)

1979

Physical Qualities Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 504 x 402 mm. (50.4 x 40.2 cm.) Image: 352 x 355 mm. (35.2 x 35.5 cm.)
Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection; and partial gift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number 1988.437
Jay Fisher, BMA, Baltimore, Baltimore Collects: Photographs from Six Private Collections, March 16-May 11, 1986.
Robert Mapplethorpe, Black Book, New York: St Martin's Press, 1986, ill. p. 18.

Inscribed: FACE: LL below image (black ink) '5/15'; LR below image 'Robert Mapplethorpe '80'; VERSO: LL (graphite) '408 5/15; (black ink) 'LEIGH LEE (BACK)'; LC (stamped in black ink with [black ink]) 'c [1980] ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE/THIS PHOTOGRAPH MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED/WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION/BY PHOTOGRAPHER [Robert Mapplethorpe]'; LR (graphite) '0222'.

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