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Lot 429
  • 429

Cindy Sherman

Estimate
220,000 - 280,000 USD
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Description

  • Cindy Sherman
  • Untitled Film Still #64
  • signed, dated 1980 and numbered 2/3 on the reverse
  • gelatin silver print
  • 30 by 40 in. 76.2 by 101.6 cm.
  • Executed in 1980, this work is number 2 from an edition of 3.

Provenance

Metro Pictures, New York

Exhibited

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills, June - September 1997, pp. 28-29, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; Bordeaux, Musée d'Art Contemporain; Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, February 1998 - January 2000, no. 65, p. 93, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Paris, Jeu de Paume; Bregenz, Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Moderne Kunst; Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau, Cindy Sherman, May 2006 - September 2007, n.p., illustrated (another example exhibited)

Condition

This work is in excellent condition. There are no apparent condition problems with this work. Framed under Plexiglas.
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Catalogue Note

"Cindy Sherman's photographs operate in domains of performance and theatrical behavior, B-movie stills, Hollywood film fan magazines, urban street life and the reactionary nostalgia of the New Wave...Her photographs exhibit both criticism and wonderment... Her large color prints with heavy grain, curious tones, extreme shadows and oddly emphasized details detour our conventional photographic notions...It is as if Sherman does at times wonder what it would be like to be a magazine model, but as she lives out the fantasy she denies it the glamour... by appropriating known types, her disruption of bourgeois conventions becomes all the more direct, obvious and effective...She is neither a dispassionate avant-garde robot nor a cynical nihilist, but an artist distinctly highlighting complex and high impact media messages." - Jack Cowart (Exh. Cat., St. Louis, Cindy Sherman, 1983)