Lot 409
  • 409

Cindy Sherman

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Cindy Sherman
  • Untitled Film Still #83
  • signed, dated 1980 and numbered 7/10 on the reverse
  • gelatin silver print
  • 8 by 10 in. 20.3 by 25.4 cm.

Provenance

Metro Pictures, New York
Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto
Private Collection
Christie's New York, November 12, 2014, lot 13
Private Collection, New York

Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Cindy Sherman, July - October 1987, cat. no. 39, n.p., illustrated (another example exhibited)
Kunsthalle Basel; Munich, Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst; London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Cindy Sherman, March 1991 - September 1999, p. 26, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; London, Barbican Art Gallery; Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux; Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, November 1997 - January 2000, cat. no. 68, p. 95, 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., illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; the Dallas Museum of Art, Cindy Sherman, February 2012 - June 2013, pl. 70, p. 117, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Literature

Arthur Danto, Untitled Film Stills: Cindy Sherman, New York, 1990, p. 40, illustrated
Rosalind Krauss, Cindy Sherman: 1975-1993, New York, 1993, p. 55, illustrated
David Frankel, Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills, New York, 2003, p. 47, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of light wear and handling in the far corners of the print. There are no visible condition issues with the image. The print is photo cornered to the backing board in three corners and framed under Plexiglas.
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