Robert Mapplethorpe
Grace Jones, 1984
Silver Gelatin
20 x 16 in (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Edition 5/10
© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission
TATE: Grace Jones is a Jamaican-born singer, model and actress, known for her androgynous looks and her outrageous behaviour. She was very much part of the New York art and...
TATE:
Grace Jones is a Jamaican-born singer, model and actress, known for her androgynous looks and her outrageous behaviour. She was very much part of the New York art and social scene in the 1980s. For this photograph her body has been painted by the New York graffiti artist, Keith Haring (1958-1990) with his characteristic pictograms and decorations. She is also wearing an exotic headdress and a conical wire bra, so that she looks like a voodoo doll or an aboriginal dancer.
Grace Jones is a Jamaican-born singer, model and actress, known for her androgynous looks and her outrageous behaviour. She was very much part of the New York art and social scene in the 1980s. For this photograph her body has been painted by the New York graffiti artist, Keith Haring (1958-1990) with his characteristic pictograms and decorations. She is also wearing an exotic headdress and a conical wire bra, so that she looks like a voodoo doll or an aboriginal dancer.
Provenance
The Artist
The Estate of Robert Mapplethorpe
The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, New York
Exhibitions
Robert Mapplethorpe: Pictures. Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal, September 20, 2018 – January 6, 2019.
Publications
Man Ray – Robert Mapplethorpe. Milan: Gio Marconi Gallery, 2010. Exhibition Catalogue.