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