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Robert Mapplethorpe
Tantric Garden (unrealized animation)circa 1969

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Mixed-media triptych with two flanking panels containing black-and-white nude photographs with silver stars and a central panel featuring a headless dark-robed figure before a colorful painted disk
Mixed-media collage in an open folder or book structure, divided into two sections. Left side features layered cut paper shapes in orange, red, yellow, green, and black, including a headless torso cutout. Right side shows two photographic nude torso cutouts with heads replaced by geometric shapes in gray, orange, and purple, overlaid with a mesh pattern and red accents.
Artist or Maker
Robert Mapplethorpe
United States, 1946–1989, active New York City
Title
Tantric Garden (unrealized animation)
Date Made
circa 1969
Medium
Gelatin silver prints (by Lloyd Ziff, United States, 1942), found images, paper, metal screens, stickers, laminate, velveteen paper, envelope
Dimensions
Dimensions variable
Credit Line
Gift of The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to The J. Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Accession Number
M.2011.30.315a-y
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Martineau, Paul, and Britt Salvesen. Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2016.
  • Terpak, Frances and Michelle Brunnick. Robert Mapplethorpe: The Archive. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2016.