Lot 454
  • 454

Cindy Sherman

Estimate
90,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Cindy Sherman
  • Untitled #57
  • signed, dated 1980, inscribed 57 and numbered 6/10 on the reverse
  • gelatin silver print
  • 8 by 10 in. 20.3 by 25.4 cm.

Provenance

Metro Pictures, New York
Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
Christie's, New York, November 13, 2008, lot 356
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Cindy Sherman, 1987, no. 36, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Milan, Civiche Raccolte d'Arte di Milano, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Cindy Sherman, October - November 1990
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Directions Cindy Sherman: Film Stills, March - June 1995, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills, 1997, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; London, Barbican Art Gallery; Bordeaux, CAPC Musee d'Art Contemporain; Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art; Art Gallery of Toronto, Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, November 1997 - January 2000, no. 59, p. 90, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Paris, Jeu de Paume; Bregenz, Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cindy Sherman, May 2006 - September 2007, pp. 57 and 244, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Dallas Museum of Art, Cindy Sherman, February 2012 - June 2013, no. 81, p. 121, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Literature

Rosalind Kraus, ed., Cindy Sherman 1975-1993, New York, 1993, p. 43, illustrated
David Frankel, Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills, New York, 2003, p. 88, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is a slight lift to the edges of the sheet, which is only noticeable when the work is unframed. The corners and edges of the sheet are slightly worn. Hinged to the matte in the top left and right corners. Framed under Plexiglas.
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