CINDY SHERMAN (B. 1954)
CINDY SHERMAN (B. 1954)
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CINDY SHERMAN (B. 1954)

Untitled Film Still

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CINDY SHERMAN (B. 1954)
Untitled Film Still
signed, inscribed, numbered and dated 'Cindy Sherman 1977 6⁄10 5' (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print
image: 6 7⁄8 x 9 1⁄2 in. (17.5 x 24.1 cm.)
sheet: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed in 1977. This work is number six from an edition of ten.
Provenance
Metro Pictures, New York
Private collection, New York
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 16 May 2007, lot 421
Skarstedt Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
P. Schjeldahl and I. M. Danoff, Cindy Sherman, New York, 1984, pl. 4 (another example illustrated).
M. Rosenthal, et. al., Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection, London, 1984, no. 72 (another example illustrated).
A. C. Danto, Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills, New York, 1990, pl. 4 (another example illustrated).
R. Krauss, Cindy Sherman: 1975-1993, New York, 1993, pp. 14-15 (another example illustrated).
D. Frankel, ed. Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2003, p. 57 (another example illustrated).
C. Krause Knight, "Just Another Day: Dutch Genre Themes in Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills," Visual Resources, Vol. 20, No.4, December 2004, p. 284, fig.6 (another example illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Max Protetch Gallery, Re: Figuration, 1979 (another example exhibited).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Cindy Sherman, July-October 1987, pl. 4 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Hamburg, Deichtorhallen; Malmö Konsthall; Kunstmuseum Luzern, Cindy Sherman Photographic Work: 1975-1995, May 1995-February 1996, no. 7 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans-Van Beuningen; Madrid, Palacio de Velázquez; Bilbao, Sala Rekalde; Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Cindy Sherman, October 1996-March 1997, pl. 10, pp. 30-31 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; 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. 5, p. 57 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Masquerade: Role Playing in Self-Portraiture Photographs from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, October 2006-January 2007 (another example exhibited).
Paris, Jeu de Paume; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Berlin, Martin Gropius- Bau, Cindy Sherman, Retrospective, May 2006-September 2007, no page and p. 241 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center and Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Cindy Sherman, February 2012-June 2013, pl. 26 (another example exhibited).
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Lot Essay

When I was in school I was getting disgusted with the attitude of art being so religious or sacred, so I wanted to make something that people could relate to without having to read about it beforehand…so that anybody off the street could appreciate it, even if they couldn’t fully understand it; they could still get something out of it. That’s the reason why I wanted to imitate something out of culture, and also make fun of the culture as I was doing it.
– Cindy Sherman

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