Details
Cindy Sherman (b. 1954)
Untitled #222
signed, numbered and dated 'Cindy Sherman 6/6 1990' (on a paper label affixed to the backing board)
chromogenic print in artist's frame
66 x 50 in. (167.6 x 127 cm.)
Executed in 1990. This work is number six from an edition of six.
Provenance
Metro Pictures, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1991
Literature
A. Danto, Cindy Sherman: History Portraits, New York, 1991, pl. 15 (another example illustrated).
C. Döttinger, Cindy Sherman: History Portraits, Munich, 1991, p. 25 (another example illustrated).
T. Kellein, Cindy Sherman, Basel, 1991, p. 61 (another example illustrated).
R. Krauss, Cindy Sherman: 1975-1993, New York, 1993, p. 175 (another example illustrated).
C. Schneider, Cindy Sherman: History Portraits, Munich, 1995, p. 25, no. 43 (another example illustrated).
G. Knape, ed., Cindy Sherman, Goteborg, 2000, p. 19 (another example illustrated).
J. Burton, Cindy Sherman, Boston, 2006, p. 63, pl. 18 (another example illustrated).
Exhibited
Milwaukee Art Museum; Miami, Center for Fine Arts; Minneapolis, Walker Art Museum, Cindy Sherman: The Masters Series, January 1991–October 1991, no. 16 (another example exhibited).
Deichtorhallen Hamburg; Malmö Konsthall and Kunstmuseum Luzern, Cindy Sherman: Photographic Work 1975-1995, May 1995-February 1996, pl. 79 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Shiga, Museum of Modern Art; Marugame, Genichro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art; Tokyo, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cindy Sherman, July 1996–December 1996, p. 130, pl. 69 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
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 and Art Gallery of Ontario, Cindy Sherman Retrospective, November 1997-January 2000, pp. 156 and 199, pl. 119 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Paris, Jeu de Paume; Bregenz, Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, and Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cindy Sherman, May 2006-September 2007, p. 258 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center and Dallas Museum of Art, Cindy Sherman, February 2012-June 2013, pp. 184 and 244, pl. 137 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museet; Stockholm, Moderna Museet; Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Cindy Sherman–Untitled Horrors, May 2013–September 2014, p. 124 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Munich, Sammlung Goetz, Cindy Sherman, January-July 2015, pp. 74, 153 and 169 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

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Lot Essay

“Even when I was doing those history pictures, I was living in Rome but never went to the churches and museums there. I worked out of books, with reproductions. It’s an aspect of photography I appreciate, conceptually: the idea that images can be reproduced and seen anytime, anywhere, by anyone.” – Cindy Sherman (quoted in Michael Kimmelman, “At the Met With: Cindy Sherman; Portraits in the Halls of Her Artistic Ancestors,” New York Times, 19 May 1995, C1).

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