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Please note this lot is the property of a private individual.
Provenance
Metro Pictures, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
London, Serpentine Gallery, Cindy Sherman, 3 June - 25 August 2003, pp. 78 and 95 (illustrated, p. 78)
Paris, Jeu de Paume; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Berlin, Martin Gropius-Bau, Cindy Sherman, 16 May 2006 - 10 September 2007, pp. 162-163, 258 and 318 (another example exhibited and illustrated, pp. 162-163, 258)
Munich, Museum Villa Stuck, Street Life and Home Stories: Fotografien aus der Sammlung Goetz, 1 June - 11 September 2011 (another example exhibited)
Silkeborg, Museum Jorn, Cindy Sherman, 23 September - 10 December 2017, pp. n.p. and 136 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Literature
Francesco Bonami, ed., Cindy Sherman, Milan, 2007, pp. 72-73 and 107 (another example illustrated, pp. 72-73)
Cindy Sherman, exh. cat., Sammlung Goetz, Munich, 2015, pp. 2-3 and 157 (another example illustrated)
Catalogue Essay
‘The models have always been the least interesting thing about fashion.’ - Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #275 is both provocative and striking, exemplary of the artist’s relentless exploration of identity. Created ten years after her initial Fashion series, in which Sherman created a series of advertisements for designer Dianne Benson, the artist revisited this theme again in 1993. Commissioned to produce an editorial for Harper’s Bazaar, the artist photographed herself in a variety of wigs, stylised clothing and theatrical make up, replicating model-esque poses to challenge our consumption and perception of fashion imagery. Executed in the same year, Untitled #275’s protagonist gazes at the viewer, interrogating our interpretation of the female form and exposing the associations we draw from magazine images. Depicting the female body in repose, her central figure lays across the composition adorned in a coiffed black wig and luxurious blue loungewear with synthetic breasts exposed. With silken drapery and her bra flung to the side, the protagonist, Sherman herself, commands our gaze within this compelling image, the photograph imbued with chiaroscuro to suggest drama and intensity. Exhibited in 2003 at the artist’s solo exhibition at The Serpentine, London, Sherman’s work was most recently celebrated at her seminal retrospective held at the National Gallery of Art, London, during the summer of 2019.

Although the initial purpose of the Fashion series was primarily commercial, through these works Sherman sparks a social commentary on the objectification of the female body and the standards of beauty presented through attire. Each showing female models in awkward and uncomfortable poses, the central figures embody their ill-fitting costumes, their personalities interwoven with the lush fabrics embellishing their outfits. By appearing as the antithesis of the poised and graceful fashion world, the artist’s satirical interpretation continues to deconstruct the female identity and its place in the public sphere dominated by the male gaze. Sherman once stated 'We’re all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don’t spend any time, or think they don’t, on preparing themselves for the world out there – I think that ultimately, they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world' (Cindy Sherman, quoted in Mark Stevens, ‘How I Made It: Cindy Sherman on Her ‘Untitled Film Stills,’ New York Magazine, 3 April 2008, online).
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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Cindy Sherman

Untitled #275

signed, numbered and dated 'Cindy Sherman 5/6 1993' on the backing board
colour coupler print
160 x 223.5 cm (62 7/8 x 87 7/8 in.)
Executed in 1993, this work is number 5 from an edition of 6.

Estimate
£40,000 - 60,000

Sold for £37,500

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Cindy Sherman

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Untitled #275

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