Lot 121
  • 121

CINDY SHERMAN | Untitled Film Still #8

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Cindy Sherman
  • Untitled Film Still #8
  • signed, dated 1978 and numbered 2/10 on the reverse
  • gelatin silver print
  • 20.3 by 25.4 cm. 8 by 10 in.
  • Executed in 1978, this work is number 2 from an edition of 10.

Provenance

Metro Pictures, New York
11 Duke Street Gallery, London
Art & Public, Geneva
Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2001

Exhibited

Milan, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea di Milano, Cindy Sherman, October - November 1990, p. 9 (text) (ed. no. unknown)
Hamburg, Deichtorhallen; Malmö, Konsthall; and Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, Cindy Sherman - Fotografiska Arbeten, 1975-1995, May 1995 - February 1996, n.p., no. 3, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; Bordeaux, Musée d'Art Contemporain; Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art; and Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, February 1998 - January 2000, p. 59, no. 8, illustrated
London, Serpentine Gallery; and Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman, June 2003 - March 2004, p. 14, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)
Paris, Jeu de Paume; Bregenz, Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; and Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cindy Sherman, May 2006 - September 2007, pp. 34 and 241, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, The Walker Art Center; and Dallas, The Dallas Museum of Art, Cindy Sherman, February 2012 - June 2013, p. 97, no. 20, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)

Literature

Exh. Cat., Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman, December 1982, n.p., no. 7, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)
Peter Schjeldahl and Michael Danoff, Cindy Sherman, New York 1984, n.p., no. 7, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)
Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Cindy Sherman, July - October 1987, n.p., no. 7, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)
Els Barents and Peter Schjeldahl, Cindy Sherman, Munich 1987, n.p., no. 7, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)
Cindy Sherman and Arthur Danto, Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills, Munich and London, 1998, n.p., no. 7, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)

Condition

Colour: The colour in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is slightly cooler in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. As visible in the catalogue, there are a few small and unobtrusive brown marks in the sky, which appear to be original.
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