Lot 76
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Cindy Sherman (B. 1954)
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Cindy Sherman (B. 1954)

Untitled (#235), 1987-1990

Details
Cindy Sherman (B. 1954)
Untitled (#235), 1987-1990
chromogenic print, flush-mounted on board
signed, dated and numbered ‘3/6’ in ink with affixed titled, dated and numbered '3/6' Metro Pictures gallery label (flush mount, verso)
image/sheet/flush mount: 89 x 59in. (126.2 x 149.8cm.)
This work is number 3 from the edition of 6.
Provenance
Metro Pictures, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1996.
Literature
R. Krauss, Cindy Sherman: 1975-1993, New York 1993 (another example from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 160).
Exhibited
Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Cindy Sherman - Untitled Horrors, 2013 (another example from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 127). This exhibition later travelled to Stockholm, Moderna Museet and Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich.
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Lot Essay

In the late 1980s, Cindy Sherman, underwent a shift within her oeuvre dominated by the human figure for a series of works which resemble decorative abstract paintings. But looking more closely soon reveals that they depict revolting substances, reminding us of what lies beneath the polished facade, unveiling the censored aspect of the feminine construct: body fluids, vomit, slime and blood. Where the female stereotypes Sherman presented in earlier pictures were based on laboured ideals, here, her focus is on metamorphosis and the creation of identity through hidden processes as we are confronted with intrusive and realistic images.

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