Cindy Sherman (b. 1954)
PROPERTY SOLD TO BENEFIT SCHINKEL PAVILLON BERLIN
Cindy Sherman (b. 1954)

Untitled (Male/Female Artist)

Details
Cindy Sherman (b. 1954)
Untitled (Male/Female Artist)
each: signed, numbered and dated 'Cindy Sherman 25/150 1980/2012' (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print, in two parts
each image: 9 ¼ x 6 ¼in. (23.8 x 16cm.)
each sheet: 10 x 8in. (25.4 x 20.3cm.)
Conceived in 1980 and printed in 2012, this work is number twenty-five from an edition of hundred fifty
Provenance
Donated by the Artist, courtesy of Metro Pictures, New York and Sprüth Magers, Berlin/London.

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Lot Essay

‘I think I was part of a movement, a generation, and maybe the most popular one of that movement at the time, but it probably would have happened without me… The art world was ready for something new, something beyond painting. A group of mostly women happened to be the ones to sort of take that on, partly because they felt excluded from the rest of the [male] art world, and thought, ‘Nobody is playing with photography. Let’s take that as our tool.’’
(C. Sherman, quoted in P. Hoban, ‘The Cindy Sherman Effect’, in ArtNews, February 2012, https://www.artnews.com/2012/02/14/the-cindy-sherman-effect/ [accessed 12 September 2015]).

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