Philip Prioleau/Cock
1980
Artist, American, 1946 - 1989

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 35 × 35.5 cm (13 3/4 × 14 in.)
sheet: 50.5 × 40 cm (19 7/8 × 15 3/4 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.4687
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Marshals Service, Arlington, VA; purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2000; acquired by NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, bottom right below image in black ink: Robert Mapplethorpe '80; bottom left below image: 3/15; on verso, in studio stamp, in black ink: Robert Mapplethorpe; by unknown hand, top right in graphite reversed: $500; bottom left corner in graphite: #377; bottom left in black ink: PHILIP - N.Y.C. 1980; bottom left in graphite: BLACK COCK PANT'S DOWN ) 1980 3/15; bottom center stamped in black ink: © [line] ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE / THIS PHOTOGRAPH MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED / WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION / BY PHOTOGRAPHER / [line]; annotation in black ink: 1980; bottom right in graphite: #581.7; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right corner: 2000.17; by unknown hand, bottom right corner: RM.109.y