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Cindy Sherman
Untitled #226
- Estimate
- $250,000 - 350,000
$300,000
Lot Details
chromogenic print
signed, numbered and dated "Cindy Sherman 5/6 1990" on a label affixed to the reverse of the backing board
sheet 47 1/4 x 29 1/2 in. (120 x 74.9 cm.)
frame 56 x 36 in. (142.2 x 91.4 cm.)
frame 56 x 36 in. (142.2 x 91.4 cm.)
Executed in 1990, this work is number 5 from an edition of 6.
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"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
Cindy Sherman
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Cindy Sherman
American | 1954Seminal to the Pictures Generation as well as contemporary photography and performance art, Cindy Sherman is a powerhouse art practitioner. Wily and beguiling, Sherman's signature mode of art making involves transforming herself into a litany of characters, historical and fictional, that cross the lines of gender and culture. She startled contemporary art when, in 1977, she published a series of untitled film stills.Through mise-en-scène and movie-like make-up and costume, Sherman treats each photograph as a portrait, though never one of herself. She embodies her characters even if only for the image itself. Presenting subversion through mimicry, against tableaus of mass media and image-based messages of pop culture, Sherman takes on both art history and the art world.Though a shape-shifter, Sherman has become an art world celebrity in her own right. The subject of solo retrospectives across the world, including a blockbuster showing at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and a frequent exhibitor at the Venice Biennale among other biennials, Sherman holds an inextricable place in contemporary art history.
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