Lot 5
  • 5

Cindy Sherman

Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 USD
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Description

  • Cindy Sherman
  • Untitled Film Still #5A
  • signed, dated 1977 and numbered 1/3 on the reverse
  • gelatin silver print

  • 30 1/2 x 40 in. 77.5 x 101.6 cm.
  • Executed in 1977, this work is number one from an edition of three.

Provenance

Metro Pictures, New York
Private Collection, New York
Skarstedt Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2007

Exhibited

New York, Max Protech Gallery, Re: Figuration, 1979 (another example)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills, June - September 1997 (ed. no. unknown)
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. (ed. no. unknown)

Literature

Mark Rosenthal, et. al., Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection, London, 1984, p. 467, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)
Peter Schjeldahl and Michael Danoff, Cindy Sherman, New York, 1984, pl. 4, illustrated
Arthur C. Danto, Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Stills, New York, 1990, pl. 4, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)
Rosalind Krauss, Cindy Sherman: 1975 - 1993, New York, 1993, pp. 14-15, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)
Exh. Cat., Hamburg, Deichtorhallen (and traveling), Cindy Sherman Photographic Work 1975 - 1995, 1995, cat. no. 7, illustrated (another example)
Exh. Cat., Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (and traveling), Cindy Sherman, 1996, cat. no. 10, pp. 30-31, illustrated (another example)
Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (and travelling), Cindy Sherman, 1997, pl. 4, illustrated (another example)
Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago (and traveling), Cindy Sherman Retrospective, 1998, pl. 5, p. 57, illustrated (another example) 
Catherine Morris, The Essential Cindy Sherman, New York, 1999, p. 35, illustrated
Uta Grosenick, ed., Art at the Turn of the Millennium, Cologne, 1999, p. 467, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections, 2001 (text reference)
Saatchi Collection, I am a Camera, London, 2001, n.p.
Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills, 2003, p. 56, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)
Chery Krause Knight, "Just Another Day: Dutch Genre Themes in Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stil," Visual Resources, Vol. 20, no. 4, December 2004, pp. 275-286, illustrated
Mark Sladen and Ariella Yedgar, Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, London, 2007, p. 156, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)

Condition

This work is in excellent condition overall. There are very soft handling ripples presumably due to the size of the sheet and the unobtrusive way in which it is hinged. The sheet freely floats set into place with plastic tabs that are securely hinged to the mat. The work is framed in a black wood strip frame behind glass.
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