The presence of garments compounds the tension. It is the queer intransigence of Cock, 1986 a penis breaking the line of tuxedo pants, unbuttoned but still sitting at the hips, their braces pushed down, a white shirt covering the upper body.

Permanent Collections

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art / J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California

Exhibitions

• Robert Mapplethorpe. 11 Columbia / Galleria Franco Noero, Monte Carlo, Monaco, April 28 - June 24, 2016
• Robert Mapplethorpe: Figure and Flower Studies. Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, February 15 - March 10, 2013
• Robert Mapplethorpe. Curated by David Hockney. Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England, January 14 - March 12, 2005
• Robert Mapplethorpe 1986. Raab Galerie / Kicken-Pausenback, Berlin, Germany / Köln, Germany, April - June 1987

Publications

• MX7: MapplethorpeX7. Edited by Richard Flood. New York: teNeues, 2011. Exhibition Catalogue
• Robert Mapplethorpe. Edited by Germano Celant. Tel Aviv, Israel: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1994. Exhibition Catalogue
• Mapplethorpe. Edited by Germano Celant. Genoa, Italy/ New York: Electa, 1992. Exhibition Catalogue
• Robert Mapplethorpe 1986. Edited by Raab Galerie. Berlin, Germany: Raab Galerie/Kicken, 1987. Exhibition Catalogue