Lot 464A
  • 464A

CINDY SHERMAN | Untitled Film Still #33

Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 USD
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Description

  • Cindy Sherman
  • Untitled Film Still #33
  • signed, dated 1979 and numbered 1/3 on a label affixed to the reverse
  • gelatin silver print
  • 30 by 40 in. 76.2 by 101.6 cm.
  • Executed in 1979, this work is number 1 from an edition of 3.

Provenance

Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; London, Barbican Art Gallery; CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux; Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, November 1997 - January 2000, p. 74, no. 34, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Paris, Jeu de Paume; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau, Cindy Sherman, May 2006 - September 2007, n.p., illustrated (another example exhibited)

Literature

Rosalind Krauss and Norman Bryson, Cindy Sherman: Arbeiten von 1975 bis 1993, Munich 1993, p. 62, illustrated 
Eva Respini, Cindy Sherman, New York 2012, p. 108, no. 49, illustrated 

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The work is mounted to the mat board. Visible only under raking light and upon close inspection, there are some extremely thin and superficial scratches which are likely inherent to the printing process. Framed under Plexiglas.
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Catalogue Note

“What I didn’t want were pictures showing strong emotions, which was rare to see; in film stills there’s a lot of overacting because they’re trying to sell the movie.” Cindy Sherman