Cindy Sherman

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

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Description

Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #1
signed, dated 1977 and numbered 8/10 on the reverse
gelatin silver print
10 by 8 in. 25.4 by 20.3 cm.

Provenance

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

Exhibited

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen; Madrid, Palacio de Velázquez; Bilbao, Sala Rekalde; Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Cindy Sherman, October 1996 - March 1997, p. 21, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Complete Untitled Film Stills, June - September 1997 (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, p. 56, illustrated (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. and p. 241, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Literature

Rosalind Krauss, Cindy Sherman: 1975-1993, New York, 1993, p. 224, illustrated
David Frankel, ed., The Complete Untitled Film Stills, New York, 2003, p. 87, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The sheet has yellowed slightly with age and shows evidence of light handling creases. The work is cornered onto the matte with paper mounts that have been secured to the acid-free matte with archival tape. Framed.
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