Lot 89
  • 89

Cindy Sherman

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Cindy Sherman
  • Untitled Film Still #63
  • signed, dated 1980 and numbered 1/3 on the reverse

  • black and white photograph

  • 30 by 40 in.
  • 76.2 by 101.6 cm.

Provenance

Metro Pictures, New York
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Christie's, New York, May 18, 2001, Lot 532
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art; Dallas, Museum of Art, Cindy Sherman, July - October 1987, cat. no. 37, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Cindy Sherman: Film Stills, March - June 1995, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen; Madrid, Palacio de Velázquez; Bilbao, Sala Rekalde; Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Cindy Sherman, October 1996 - March 1997, no. 27, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux; Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, November 1997 - January 2000, no. 69, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Paris, Jeu de Paume; Bregenz, Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cindy Sherman, May 2006 - September 2007, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Literature

Arthur Danto, Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills, New York, 1990, no. 39, illustrated
Rosalind Krauss, Cindy Sherman 1975-1993, New York, 1993, p. 38, illustrated
David Frankel, ed., Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills, New York, 2003, p. 112, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition. There are no apparent condition problems with this work.. Hinged intermittently with archival tape to the matte. Framed under Plexiglas.
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Catalogue Note

This is one of a small number of Film Stills in which Cindy used the façade of the World Trade Center as a backdrop, in 1980 still a new building and not yet impressed on the mass imagination as a symbol of New York City.