Lot 32
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CINDY SHERMAN | Untitled Film Still #63

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
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Description

  • Cindy Sherman
  • Untitled Film Still #63
  • signed, titled #63, dated 1980 and numbered 4/10 on the reverse
  • gelatin silver print
  • image: 19 by 24 cm. 7 1/2 by 9 1/2 in.
  • sheet: 20.2 by 25.4 cm. 8 by 10 in.
  • Executed in 1980, this work is number 4 from an edition of 10.

Provenance

Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York
Edward Tyler Nahem, New York
Pat Caporaso, New York
Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2001

Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Cindy Sherman, July - October 1987, n.p., no. 37, illustrated (edition no. unknown)
Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Cindy Sherman: Film Stills, March - June 1995, n.p., no. 63, illustrated (edition no. unknown)
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen; Madrid, Palacio de Velázquez, Parque del Retiro Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia; Bilbao, Sala de Exposiciones Rekalde; and Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Cindy Sherman, March 1996 - March 1997, n.p., no. 27, illustrated (edition no. unknown)
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills, June - September 1997 (edition no. unknown)
Los Angeles, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; London, Barbican Art Gallery; Bordeaux, CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux; Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia; and Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, November 1997 - January 2000, p. 95, no. 69, illustrated (edition no. unknown)
Paris, Jeu de Paume; Bregenz, Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; and Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cindy Sherman, May 2006 - September 2007, n.p., illustrated (edition no. unknown)
New York, Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Cindy Sherman, February 2012 - June 2013, p. 112, no. 57, illustrated (edition no. unknown)

Literature

Exh. Cat., Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Cindy Sherman, December 1982, n.p., no. 37, illustrated (edition no. unknown)
Arthur Danto, Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills, Munich 1990, n.p., no. 39, illustrated (edition no. unknown)
Rosalind Krauss, Cindy Sherman 1975-1993, New York 1993, p. 38, illustrated (edition no. unknown)
David Frankel, Ed., Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills, New York 2003, p. 113, illustrated (edition no. unknown)

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

“[The Untitled Film Stills] are arguably one of the most significant bodies of work made in the Twentieth Century and thoroughly canonized by art historians, curators, and critics.” Eva Respini
cited in: Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman, 2012, p. 18