Signed, dated by Michael Ward Stout, Executor, in ink, estate copyright credit reproduction limitation and signature stamp on the reverse of the flush-mount. Number 1 from an edition of 10. “In session after session, Lisa [Lyon] posed as bride, broad, doll, moll, playgirl, beach-girl, bike-girl, gym-girl, and boy-girl; as frog-person, mud-person, flamenco dancer, spiritism medium, archetypal huntress, circus artiste, snake-woman, society woman, young Christian, and kink.” —Bruce Chatwin, An Eye and Some Body, Lady: Lisa Lyon.
Provenance: - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York. - Phillips, "SPOTLIGHT: Photographs from A Private London Collection”, 2023. - Private Collection, Spain. Literature: - R. Mapplethorpe, Lady: Lisa Lyon, New York: St. Martin's, 1983, p. 94 (variant).
Gelatin silver print, printed 1982, mounted. Framed.
Signed, dated by Michael Ward Stout, Executor, in ink, estate copyright credit reproduction limitation and signature stamp on the reverse of the flush-mount. Number 1 from an edition of 10.
“In session after session, Lisa [Lyon] posed as bride, broad, doll, moll, playgirl, beach-girl, bike-girl, gym-girl, and boy-girl; as frog-person, mud-person, flamenco dancer, spiritism medium, archetypal huntress, circus artiste, snake-woman, society woman, young Christian, and kink.”
—Bruce Chatwin, An Eye and Some Body, Lady: Lisa Lyon.
Provenance:
- Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.
- Phillips, "SPOTLIGHT: Photographs from A Private London Collection”, 2023.
- Private Collection, Spain.
Literature:
- R. Mapplethorpe, Lady: Lisa Lyon, New York: St. Martin's, 1983, p. 94 (variant).