Lot 287
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Cindy Sherman (B. 1954)
Cindy Sherman (B. 1954)

Untitled Film Still #45

Details
Cindy Sherman (B. 1954)
Untitled Film Still #45
signed, titled, numbered and dated ‘Cindy Sherman 1979 2/10 #45’ (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print
8 x 10in. (20.3 x 25.4cm.)
Executed in 1979, this work is number two from an edition of ten
Provenance
Metro Pictures, New York.
Private Collection, Germany.
Private Collection, Switzerland.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1994.
Literature
R. Krauss, Cindy Sherman: 1975-1993, New York 1993, p. 226.
D. Frankel (ed.), Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills, New York 2003 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 119).
Exhibited
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, 1997-2000, no. 40 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, p. 78). This exhibition later travelled to Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; London, Barbican Art Gallery; Bordeaux, CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux; Sidney, Museum of Contemporary Art and Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario.
Paris, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Cindy Sherman, 2006-2007 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, unpaged). This exhibition later travelled to Bregenz, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman, 2012, no. 77 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, p. 120). This exhibition later travelled to San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center and Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art.
Further Details
Another work from this edition is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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Lot Essay

‘Some of the women in the outdoor shots could be alone, or being watched or followed – the shots I would choose were always the ones in-between the action. These women are on their way to wherever the action is (or to their doom)... or have just come from a confrontation (or tryst)’ (C. Sherman, ‘The Making of Untitled’, in Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills, New York 2003, p. 9).

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