>Hate to disappoint you but, Mapplethorpe did not print that work. The
>platinum palladium prints were made by Sal Lopes. Sal is a master
>photographer and printmaker. He has a unique ability to print
>photographs with the same feeling as the original photographer nop51076@mail.telepac.pt (on many
>occasions even better). Sal taught me the platinum palladium process as
>well as negative building techniques. The fabric used was a pima cotton
>which I purchased for Sal. Since then I have found an even better
>fabric with about twice the thread count of that pima cotton.
Sal printed some and Martin Axon printed some. Martin did some on paper and
he did some of the canvas ones. I know that the big floral that sold at
auction was printed by Axon. I was not aware that Sal had done any on canvas
that had been in any sold editions. Both printers are customers of mine and
there is a considerable amount of rivelry here so I will judiciously stay
out of commenting on the quality of the work of either other than to say
that both are superb printers.
Dick
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