Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #32, 1979
silver gelatin print
IMAGE: 7-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches (19 x 24.3 cm)
PAPER: 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x25.3 cm)
PAPER: 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x25.3 cm)
edition 8 of 10
CT-2709
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Born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Cindy Sherman lives and works in New York NY. Her ground-breaking photographs have interrogated themes around representation and identity in contemporary media...
Born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Cindy Sherman lives and works in New York NY. Her ground-breaking photographs have interrogated themes around representation and identity in contemporary media for over four decades. Coming to prominence in the late 1970s with the Pictures Generation group alongside artists such as Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince and Louise Lawler, Sherman studied art at Buffalo State College in 1972 where she turned her attention to photography. In 1977, shortly after moving to New York, Sherman began her critically acclaimed Untitled Film Stills. A suite of 70 black and white portraits, Untitled Film Stills sees Sherman impersonate a myriad of stereotypical female characters and caricatures inspired by Hollywood pictures, film noir, and B movies. Using a range of costumes, props and backdrops to manipulate her own appearance and to create photographs resembling promotional film images, the series explores the tension between artifice and identity in consumer culture which has preoccupied the artist’s practice ever since.
Sherman's work has been the subject of countless major international exhibitions including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto ; the Serpentine Gallery, London and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Jeu de Paume, Paris , traveling to Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Denmark, and Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin. In 2012 the Museum of Modern Art in New York, organised a major retrospective of her work that travelled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, and Dallas Museum of Art. Sherman's photographs have been included in numerous international exhibitions, notably the Whitney Biennial (1995, 1993, 1991, 1985, 1983); the Biennale of Sydney (1990, 1984); and documenta 7 (1982). In 2013 she co-curated an exhibition for the 55th Venice Biennale.
Sherman's work has been the subject of countless major international exhibitions including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto ; the Serpentine Gallery, London and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Jeu de Paume, Paris , traveling to Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Denmark, and Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin. In 2012 the Museum of Modern Art in New York, organised a major retrospective of her work that travelled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, and Dallas Museum of Art. Sherman's photographs have been included in numerous international exhibitions, notably the Whitney Biennial (1995, 1993, 1991, 1985, 1983); the Biennale of Sydney (1990, 1984); and documenta 7 (1982). In 2013 she co-curated an exhibition for the 55th Venice Biennale.
Provenance
Metro Pictures, New YorkPrivate Collection, Princeton
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Collection Willem Peppler
Christie's Paris: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 [Lot 00108]
Private Collection
Exhibitions
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Ghent, Gewad; Bristol, Watershed Gallery; Southhampton, John Hansard Gallery; Erlangen, Palais Stutterheim; West Berlin, Haus Am Waldsee; Geneva, Centre d'Art Contemporain; Copenhagen, Sonja Henie and Neils Onstadt Foundation; Humblebaek, Louisiana Museum, Cindy Sherman, December 1982 - January 1984, no. 20 (illustrated, another copy exhibited).Tokyo, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Next Wave of American Women Vol. 2, Cindy Sherman, April - May 1984, p. 6 (illustrated, another copy exhibited).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Cindy Sherman, July - October 1987, pl. 20 (illustrated, another copy exhibited).
Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Directions Cindy Sherman: Film Stills, March - June 1995 (illustrated, another copy exhibited).
Deichtorhallen Hamburg; Malm Kunsthall and Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Cindy Sherman: Photographien 1975-1995, May 1995 - February 1996 (another copy exhibited).
Shiga, Museum of Modern Art; Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art and Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cindy Sherman, July - December 1996, no. 72 (illustrated, another copy exhibited).
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam; Madrid, Palacio de Velázques, Parque del Retiro Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia; Bilbao, Sala de Exposiciones REKALDE and Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Cindy Sherman, March 1996 - March 1997, pl. 15 (illustrated, another copy exhibited).
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; London, Barbican Art Gallery; Le CAPC-Muse d'art contemporain de Bordeaux; Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art and Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, November 1997 - January 2000 (illustrated, another copy exhibited).
Paris, Jeu de Paume; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cindy Sherman, May 2006 - September 2007, pp. 46 and 243 (illustrated, another copy exhibited).
New York, Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center and Dallas Museum of Art, Cindy Sherman, February 2012 - June 2013, p. 106, pl. 43 (illustrated, another copy exhibited).
Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museet; Stockholm, Moderna Museet; Zürich, Kunsthaus, Cindy Sherman; Untitled Horrors, May - June 2014 (another copy exhibited).
New York, Cristin Tierney Gallery, Under Construction: Photography, Video, and the (Re)presenation of Identity, September 6 - October 17, 2018.
Literature
P. Schjeldahl, E. Barents, Cindy Sherman, Munich, 1987, No. 20 (another copy illustrated, no pagination).A. Danto, Untitled Film Stills: Cindy Sherman, Munich, 1990, pl. 20 (another copy illustrated, no pagination).
R. Krauss, Cindy Sherman: 1975-1993, New York, 1993, p. 225 (another copy illustrated p. 39).
L. Verena, Film Stills: Cindy Sherman and Her 'Film Stills' - Frozen Performances, Rotterdam, 1996, No. 15 (another copy illustrated, no pagination).
H. Muschamp, "Knowing Looks: Cindy Sherman's Sixty-Nine '70s," Artforum, May - June 1997 (illustrated p. 109).
P. Galassi, Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills, New York, 2003, No. 32 (another copy illustrated p. 25).
A. Heil and W. Schoppmann, YES YES YES YES: Difference and Repetition in Pictures of the Olbricht Collection, Bönnigheim, 2005 (another copy illustrated p. 162).
J. Burton, Cindy Sherman, Cambridge, 2006 (illustrated p. 18).
O. Granath, S. Kelly and W. Peppler, A Collector and his Oeuvre, Willem Peppler, Sweden, 2008 (illustrated pp. 178-179).
Eva Respini, Cindy Sherman, MoMA, 2012.
