Cindy Sherman

Monica Sprüth Galerie, Cologne
Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, Germany
Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, November 7, 2005, lot 12
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Cindy Sherman, July - October 1987, no. 36, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills, June - September 1997, pp. 88-89, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; London, Barbican Art Gallery; CAPC, Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux; Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, November 1997 - January 2000, pl. 59, p. 90, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Paris, Jeu de Paume; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Moderne Kunst; Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau, Cindy Sherman, May 2006 - September 2007, n.p., illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Dallas Museum of Art, Cindy Sherman, February 2012 - June 2013, pl. 81, p. 121, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Peter Schjeldahl and I. Michael Danoff, Cindy Sherman, New York, 1984, no. 36, illustrated

This work is in good condition overall. There is evidence of minute skinning along the edges of the photograph of which only the top edge is visible when framed. There is a vertical intermittent line located a quarter of an inch from the left edge which is visible only under extreme raking light. The photograph is laid down to the matte. Framed under Plexiglas.
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"Even though I've never actively thought of my work as feminist or as a political statement, certainly everything in it was drawn from my observations as a woman in this culture. And a part of that is a love-hate thing-being infatuated with make-up and glamour and detesting it at the same time. It comes from trying to look like a proper young lady or look as sexy or as beautiful as you can make yourself, and also feeling like a prisoner of that structure." - Cindy Sherman, 1997