MAPPLETHORPE, ROBERT; (PATTI SMITH; GERMANO CELANT) — Mirrors
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation with Random House. 1993, Limited Edition. Stiff Card Boards, 12" x 11 1/2". Exhibition Catalogue, 32 pages; 9 duotone plates plus one tipped-in plate within the text. A commemorative book of the exhibition of self-portraits to celebrate the gift of the Mapplethorpe Foundation to the Guggenheim and to inaugurate the Museum's Robert Mapplethorpe Gallery. A poem, "Reflecting Robert", by Patti Smith and an essay by Germano Celant, who organized the exhibition. Letterpress printed by the Stinehour Press; Limited to 700 copies of which 300 were signed by Patti Smith; this copy is of the unsigned 400. Clean throughout, including the enclosed four-page testimonial letter from Thomas Kerns (Guggenheim) and Michael Ward Stout (Mapplethorpe Foundation). Fine/Fine.
