Lot 419
  • 419

Cindy Sherman

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Cindy Sherman
  • Untitled #87
  • signed, dated 1981 and numbered 2/10 on the reverse

  • Chromogenic print
  • 23 3/4 by 47 3/4 in. 60.3 by 121.3 cm.
  • Executed in 1981, this work is number 2 from an edition of 10.

Provenance

Young Hoffman Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Paris, Jeu de Paume; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cindy Sherman, May 2006 - September 2007, pp. 84-85 and p. 249, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Literature

Peter Schjeldahl and Micahel Danoff, eds., Cindy Sherman, New York, 1984, cat. no. 51, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in fair overall condition. The original pigment of the print has attenuated with age as visible in the catalogue illustration. There are extremely fine vertical abrasions located in the lower left corner. There is also a fine digagonal abrasion 4 inches from the left and 10 inches from the bottom. Framed under Plexiglas.
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