CINDY SHERMAN | Untitled Film Still #49

signed, titled, dated 1979 and numbered 10/10 on the reverse

Metro Pictures, New York
Acquired from the above by Marc Jacobs in January 2005

Milan, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Cindy Sherman, October - November 1990, p. 91 (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, 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, pl. 53, p. 85, 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, pp. 56 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, pl. 52, p. 110, illustrated (another example exhibited) 

Arthur C. Danto, Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills, New York 1990, pl. 34, illustrated 
Exh. Cat., Milan, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Cindy Sherman, 1990, p. 19, illustrated
Rosalind Krauss and Norman Bryson, Cindy Sherman: 1975-1993, New York 1993, pp. 24-25, illustrated
David Frankel, Ed., Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills, New York 2003, p. 111, illustrated

This work is in excellent condition overall. The photograph is secured to the mat with photo corners in all four corners. There is evidence of very minor wear to the upper corners in the margin of the photograph. Framed under Plexiglas.
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"I was wrestling with some sort of turmoil of my own about understanding women. The characters weren't dummies; they weren't just airhead actresses. They were women, struggling with something, but I didn't know what..." Cindy Sherman