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Passings: Michael Ward Stout, Lawyer Who Ran Mapplethorpe Foundation, Dies at 83

By David Schonauer   Thursday November 12, 2026

Michael Ward Stout, a prominent art-world lawyer who fought counterfeits of the Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí and ran the foundation of the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, died on Oct. 16 at his home in Carmel, NY. He was 83, reports The New York Times. In 1988, a year before Mapplethorpe’s death …

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