Cindy Sherman - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session New York Wednesday, May 15, 2024 | Phillips

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  • Condition Report

  • Description

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  • Provenance

    Private Collection, Belgium
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; London, Barbican Art Gallery; capc, Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux; Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, November 2, 1997–January 2, 2000, no. 30, pp. 72, 197 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 72)
    Paris, Jeu de Paume; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Brelin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cindy Sherman, May 16, 2006–September 10, 2007, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    New York, Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Dallas Museum of Art, Cindy Sherman, February 26, 2012–June 9, 2013, pl. 61, pp. 113, 241 (another example exhibited and illustrated, pp. 113, 241)

  • Literature

    Rosalind Krauss, Cindy Sherman 1975–1993, New York, 1993, p. 225
    David Frankel, ed., Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills, New York, 2003, pp. 100–101 (another example illustrated, p. 101)

  • Artist Biography

    Cindy Sherman

    American • 1954

    Seminal 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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Untitled Film Still #29

signed, numbered and dated "Cindy Sherman 4/10 1979" on the reverse
gelatin silver print
8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Executed in 1979, this work is number 4 from an edition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofs.

Estimate
$50,000 - 70,000 

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session

New York Auction 15 May 2024