ID 990165
Lot 118 | CINDY SHERMAN (B. 1954)
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
Untitled Film Still
signed, numbered and dated 'Cindy Sherman 1979 7/10' (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print
image: 6 1/4 x 9 1/4in. (16 x 23.5cm.)
sheet: 8 1/4 x 9 7/8in. (20.5 x 25cm.)
Executed in 1979, this work is number seven from an edition of ten plus two artist's proofs
Provenance
Metro Pictures, New York.
Private Collection, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008.
Literature
R. Krauss, Cindy Sherman: 1975-1993, New York 1993, p. 225.
D. Frankel (ed.), The Complete Film Stills: Cindy Sherman, New York 2003, pp. 76, 259 (illustrated in colour, p. 77).
Exhibited
Washington DC, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Cindy Sherman: Film Stills, 1995, no. 26 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, unpaged).
Los Angeles, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, 1997-2000, p. 197, no. 28 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 71). This exhibition later travelled to Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; London, Barbican Art Gallery; Bordeaux, Le CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux; Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art and Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario.
Paris, Jeu de Paume, Cindy Sherman, 2006-2007, pp. 32, and 316 (another from the edition exhibited and illustrated in colour, pp. 44 and 242). This exhibition later travelled to Bregenz, Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman, 2012-2013, p. 241, no. 14 (another from the edition exhibited and illustrated in colour, p. 95). This exhibition later travelled to San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, The Walker Art Center, and Dallas, The Dallas Museum of Art.
Shanghai, Fosun Foundation, Cindy Sherman, 2018-2019 (another from the edition exhibited).
Special notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
Post lot text
Another from the edition is in the Museum of Modern Art Collection, New York.
Artist: | Cindy Sherman (1954) |
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Art style: | Contemporary art |
Auction house category: | Photography |
Artist: | Cindy Sherman (1954) |
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Art style: | Contemporary art |
Auction house category: | Photography |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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