Sotheby’s has reportedly sold a print of Robert Mapplethorpe’s 1980 photograph “Man in a Polyester Suit” for nearly a half million dollars ($478,000).
There are at least two things that this sale shows. One, the increasing value of photographic works. Two, despite the attempt to exploit art as a political tool, Jesse Helms and right wing conservatives ultimately failed. Helms is dead and Mapplethorpe’s work lives on.
J.Paul Getty Museum Collection
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