Cindy Sherman

Metro Pictures, New York
Donated by the artist to benefit CEPA Gallery, Buffalo
Private Collection
Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, November 17, 2006, Lot 357
Skarstedt Gallery, New York

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Cindy Sherman, July - October 1987, cat. no. 20, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Hamburg, Deichtorhallen; Malmö Konsthall; Luzern, Kunstmuseum, Cindy Sherman Photographien 1975 - 1995, May 1995 - February 1996, cat. no. 17, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Shiga, Museum of Modern Art; Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art; Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cindy Sherman, July - December, cat. no. 72, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia; Bilbao, Sala de Exposiciones Rekalde; Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Cindy Sherman, April 1996 - March 1997,  pp. 40-41, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; London, Barbican Art Gallery; Musée d'Art Contemporaine de Bordeaux; Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Cindy Sherman: A Retrospective, November 1997 - January 2000, cat. no. 37, p. 96, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Paris, Jeu de Paume; Austria, Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst; Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cindy Sherman, May 2006 - September 2007, n.p., illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Peter Schjeldahl, Cindy Sherman, New York, 1984, cat. no. 20, illustrated
Arthur Danto, Untitled Film Stills: Cindy Sherman, Munich, 1990, pl. 20, illustrated
Rosalind Krauss, Cindy Sherman 1975-1993, New York, 1993, p. 39, illustrated
David Frankel, Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills, New York, 2003, p. 24, illustrated
Axel Heil & Wolfgang Schoppmann, eds., YES YES YES YES: Difference and Repetition in Pictures of the Olbricht Collection, Bönnigheim, 2005, p. 162, illustrated

This work is in good condition overall. There are small scattered pinpoint unobtrusive undulations in the surface visible only under raking light conditions. There are scattered spots of retouching visible under ultra violet light inspection, the largest of which measures 1/2 inch and is located 4 inches from the left edge and 1 inch from the bottom edge. Cornered into the matte at the four corners and framed under Plexiglas.
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