Lot 479
  • 479

Cindy Sherman

Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Cindy Sherman
  • Untitled #89
  • signed, dated 1981 and numbered 1/10 on the reverse
  • c-print
  • 24 by 48 in. 61 by 121.9 cm.

Provenance

Metro Pictures, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in March 1987

Exhibited

New York, Skarstedt Fine Art, Cindy Sherman – Centerfolds 1981, May – June 2003, pp. 20-21, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Paris, Jeu de Paume; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cindy Sherman, May 2006 - September 2007, n.p., p. 249 and p. 290, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, the Walker Art Center; Dallas Museum of Art, Cindy Sherman, February 2012 - June 2013, p. 144, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Literature

Exh. Cat., Paris, Jeu de Paume (and traveling), Cindy Sherman, 2006, pp. 86-87, illustrated in color and pp. 249 and 290, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in excellent condition overall. There are no apparent condition issues with this work. Mounted to aluminum. Framed under Plexiglas.
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Catalogue Note

"I was definitely trying to provoke in those pictures. But it was more about provoking men into reassessing their assumptions when they look at pictures of women. I was thinking about vulnerability in a way that would make a male viewer feel uncomfortable - like seeing your daughter in a vulnerable state."
Cindy Sherman (Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman, 2012, p. 33)

Eugène Delacroix, Odalisquecirca 1825
Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, UK / Bridgeman Images