Lot 452
  • 452

Cindy Sherman

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
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Description

  • Cindy Sherman
  • Untitled #12
  • signed, dated 1978 and numbered 1/10 on the reverse
  • gelatin silver print
  • 8 by 10 in. 20.3 by 25.4 cm.

Provenance

Metro Pictures, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above) 
Christie's, New York, November 14, 2007, lot 330
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Complete Untitled Film Stills, Cindy Sherman, June - September 1997, pp. 96-97, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; London, Barbican Art Gallery; Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux; Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Cindy Sherman Retrospective, November 1997 - January 2000, p. 61, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Paris, Jeu de Paume; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cindy Sherman, May 2006 - September 2007, pp. 37 and 241, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Dallas Museum of Art, Cindy Sherman, February 2012 - June 2013, no. 69, p. 116, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Literature

Rosalind Krauss, Cindy Sherman 1975-1993, New York, 1993, p. 16, illustrated
Cindy Sherman, Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills, New York, 2003, pp. 96-97, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is a slight lift to the left and right edges of the sheet, which is only noticeable when unframed. The bottom left corner and edge of the sheet are slightly worn. This work has been hinged to the matte in the top left and right corners and previously in all four corners. Framed under Plexiglas.
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