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American, 1946–1989. Robert Mapplethorpe produced a body of work ranging from sensual floral still lifes and celebrity portraiture to explicit images of sadomasochism. Yet even his erotic male nudes evoke a classical aesthetic, balancing contemporaneity against timeless form. In 1980 Mapplethorpe met Lisa Lyon, who won the first World Women ...
Oct 29, 2022 · The start of a unique relationship. According to NPR, Patti Smith met Robert Mapplethorpe on her very first day in New York City in the summer of 1967, describing him as a "hippie shepherd boy" with dark curly hair. They bonded quickly, largely due to their similar upbringings and countercultural views on art, and it wasn't long before they ...
Mar 31, 2015 · Was a Business owner in Fresno. Preceded in death by father, Roy M Thorpe, Mother, Lelia Sadler, and brother Dick Linn. ... Morgan Andre Fine Art | Studio209 ... Robert M Thorpe April 16, 1936 ...
Jan 4, 2017 · April 19, 1925 - January 4, 2017, Robert M. Thorpe passed away on January 4, 2017 in San Leandro, California. Funeral Ho...
Robert M. Thorpe, age 84, of West Haven passed away peacefully at home on September 23, 2019. For 38 years, he was the loving husband of Rebecca Hollern Thorpe. Bob was born in Waterbury, son of the late Eugene and Amelia Miles Thorpe.
Jan 24, 2019 · Robert Mapplethorpe, Candy Darling, 1973; four dye diffusion transfer prints (Polaroids), in painted plastic mounts and acrylic frame, 9.5 x 7.1 cm, each; 14.3 x 38.3 x 6.7 cm overall; Solomon R ...
Dec 3, 2012 · Robert Mapplethorpe is indelibly a New York artist. His life and career are redolent of the history of New York City at a crucial moment in its art and cultural history—a context so eloquently drawn in Patti Smith’s 2010 bestseller Just Kids. Yet here we are in Los Angeles, a city that Mapplethorpe avowedly disliked, where Mapplethorpe’s archive and much of his life’s work has come to ...
