Robert Mapplethorpe
Eva Sarandon / Amurri
About this artwork
This photograph is of Eva, the daughter of American actress Susan Sarandon. Although sombrely dressed in black, clutching her toy rabbit, a delicate lace collar frames her face and she wears a soft smile, her eyes glistening. Although it was taken at a time when Robert Mapplethorpe was desperately ill from AIDS and had only a few months to live, it is an image of innocence and of bright hope for the future.
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artist:Robert Mapplethorpe (1946 - 1989) American
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title:Eva Sarandon / Amurri
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date created:1988
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materials:Gelatin silver print on paper
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measurements:47.60 x 47.10 cm (framed: 81.60 x 78.40 x 3.00 cm)
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credit line:ARTIST ROOMS National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. Acquired jointly through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Art Fund, 2008
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accession number:AR00195
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
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Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe
The American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe became famous, not to say, notorious, in the 1970s and 1980s for his photographs of the male nude and sexually explicit, gay imagery. Although often considered controversial, Mapplethorpe tested the right to individual freedom of expression. These...
