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Cindy Sherman

Untitled Film Still #37

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April 21, 02:14 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Cindy Sherman

b. 1954

Untitled Film Still #37

large-format gelatin silver print, mounted, signed, dated, and editioned '1/3' in ink on a Metro Pictures label on the reverse, framed, The Museum of Contemporary Art and Metro Pictures labels on the reverse, 1979

image: 36 by 29 ¼ in. (91.4 by 74.3 cm.)

frame: 47 ½ by 40 ½ in. (120.7 by 102.9 cm.)

Metro Pictures, New York, 1980

Collection of Douglas Crimp, art historian, critic, and curator

Bequeathed to the present owner

Peter Schjeldahl and Lisa Phillips, Cindy Sherman (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1987), pl. 23

Arthur C. Danto, Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills (New York, 1990), pl. 24

Rosalind Krauss, Cindy Sherman: 1975-1993 (New York, 1993), p. 53

Cindy Sherman (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam, 1996), pl. 19

Amanda Cruz, Elizabeth A.T. Smith, and Amelia Jones, Cindy Sherman: Retrospective (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art; and Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 1997), pl. 42

Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2003), p. 105

Eva Respini, Cindy Sherman (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2012), p. 104