Cindy Sherman - Photographs New York Tuesday, October 1, 2013 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Metro Pictures, New York

  • Literature

    Pantheon Books, Cindy Sherman, pl. 82

  • Catalogue Essay

    "I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear."
    -Cindy Sherman

  • 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 #121

1983
Chromogenic print.
35 1/8 x 21 1/8 in. (89.2 x 53.7 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered 14/18 in ink on the verso.

Estimate
$60,000 - 80,000 

Sold for $118,750

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Photographs

New York 30 September & 1 October 2013