- Untitled (Mario)
Sheet: 19 15/16 × 15 9/16 in. (50.6 × 39.6 cm)
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The son of a drug-addicted mother, Mark Morrisroe was a
teenage hustler, a precocious punk queer, and an ambitious photographer. Morrisroe
worked in the late 1970s and early 1980s with the photographers Nan Goldin, Philip-Lorca
diCorcia, Doug and Mike Starn, and others as part of the prominent “Boston
School,” and his work was cutting-edge in its subject matter and presentation.
Purposefully grainy, this languid portrait blends his distinctive eroticism
with echoes of Jacques-Louis David’s Death of Marat. Sexuality and mortality
were persistent themes in Morrisroe’s work, which gained pronounced personal
poignancy after his 1986 AIDS diagnosis.
Provenance[ClampArt, New York]; purchased by Carl Niendorff, Dallas, 2018.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed in black on applied label, frame verso, lower center: This frame is glazed with: // Ultraviolet Filtering Acrylite // OP-3: Acrylite OP-3 blocks // 98% of the radiation in the // UV range. Clean with // plexiglass cleaner or mild // soapy water and soft cloth.
Printed in black on applied label, frame verso, bottom center: CITY FRAME // 259 W. 30th STreet, 5th floor // New York, NY 10001 // Tel: 212.967.4401 // Fax: 212.967.4417 // www.cityframe.com
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