Robert Mapplethorpe
Ajitto

Ajitto

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Ajitto
Ajitto
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Ajitto
Date1981
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 17 15/16 × 13 13/16 in. (45.5 × 35.1 cm)
Sheet: 17 7/8 x 13 13/16 in. (45.5 x 35.1 cm)
Mount: 17 15/16 × 13 13/16 in. (45.5 × 35.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1601.1
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Sotheby’s New York, May 8, 1984, Lot 222]; purchased by Manfred Heiting; given to MFAH, 2002.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Stamped on the verso of each mount, center, lower center: "© 1981 ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE / THIS PHOTOGRAPH MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION" (This inscription is cut off at various parts of the text on each panel)

Inscribed in pencil, verso of B, lower right: "hB83019"
The photograph is unsigned.

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