Lot 455
  • 455

Cindy Sherman

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
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Description

  • Cindy Sherman
  • Untitled Film Still #10
  • signed, dated 1978 and numbered 10/10 on the reverse
  • gelatin silver print
  • 8 by 10 in. 20.3 by 25.4 cm.
  • Executed in 1978, this work is number 10 from an edition of 10.

Provenance

Private Collection, France

Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Cindy Sherman, Retrospective, 1987, pl. 9, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; London, Barbican Art Gallery; Bordeaux, CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux; Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia; and Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Cindy Sherman Retrospective, November 1997 - January 2000, pl. 10, p. 60, illustrated (another example exhibited) 
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Dallas Museum of Art; Cindy Sherman, February 2012 - June 2013, pl. 63, p. 114, illustrated (another example exhibited) 
Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museet; Stockholm, Moderna Museet; Kunsthaus Zurich, Cindy Sherman - Untitled Horrors, May 2013 - September 2014, p. 36, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Literature

Peter Schjeldahl and Michael Danoff, Eds., Cindy Sherman, New York 1984, pl. 9, illustrated
Arthur Danto, Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills, New York 1990, pl. 9, illustrated 
Rosalind Krauss and Norman Bryson, Eds., Cindy Sherman: 1975-1993, New York 1993, p. 49, illustrated 
Zdenek Felix and Martin Schwander, Eds., Cindy Sherman: Photographic Works 1975-1995, Munich 1995, no. 23, illustrated
David Frankel, Ed., Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills, New York 2003, pp. 26-27, illustrated 

Condition

This work is in excellent condition overall. The photograph is hinged verso along the top edge to the backing board. The edges and corners of the sheet are very slightly curled upward, completely obscured by the mat and only visible when unframed. Framed under Plexiglas.
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Catalogue Note

"Who does not know the feelings and vulnerabilities, the hopes, anxieties and boredom associated with anonymous hallways, bathrooms or kitchens in the big city? We have seen the portrayal of waiting, the vain striving for understanding..."
Thomas Kellein in Exh. Cat., Kunsthalle Basel (and traveling), March - September 1991, p. 5