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Patti Smith b.1946

Robert’s Slippers

2002
gelatin silver print image: 4¼ h × 3¼ w in (11 × 8 cm) sheet: 10 h × 8 w in (25 × 20 cm)
estimate: $2,000–2,500
result: $3,024
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Signed and titled to lower margin ‘Robert's Slippers Patti Smith’.
literature: Patti Smith: Camera Solo, Smith, pg. 31

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Robert took areas of dark human consent and made them into art. He worked without apology, investing the homosexual with grandeur, masculinity, and enviable nobility. Without affectation, he created a presence that was wholly male without sacrificing feminine grace. He was not looking to make a political statement or an announcement of his evolving sexual persuasion. He was presenting something new, something not seen or explored as he saw and explored it.

Patti Smith, Just Kids

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