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CINDY SHERMAN (b. 1954)
Untitled
signed, numbered, and dated 'Cindy Sherman, 1985, 6/6' (on the reverse)
chromogenic print, in artist's frame
4912 x 72 in. (125.7 x 184.2 cm.)
Executed in 1985. This work is number six from an edition of six plus one artist's proof.
Provenance
Metro Pictures, New York
Private collection, London
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 16 November 2000, lot 54
Private collection, London
Simon Lee Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Cindy Sherman Photographien, Essen, 1985 (illustrated).
E. Barents and P. Schjeldahl, Cindy Sherman, Munich 1987 (illustrated).
R. Krauss, Cindy Sherman: 1975-1993, New York, 1993, p. 154 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Münster, Westfälische Kunstverein, Cindy Sherman Photographie, December 1985-January 1986, p. 36 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Cindy Sherman, July - October 1987, p. 98 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Nuevas adquisiciones de artistas extranjeros. Adquisiciones, donaciones y daciones. 1991 - 1994, July-October 1994 (another example exhibited).
The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; London, Barbican Art Gallery; Musee d'art Contemporain de Bourdeaux; Sydney, Museum of Contemporay Art; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Cindy Sherman Retrospective, November 1997-January 2000, p. 137 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Impure Vision. Works from the Permanent Collection, February-September 2006 (another example exhibited).
Paris, Jeu de Paume; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Berlin, Martin Gropius-Bau, Cindy Sherman, Retrospective, May 2006-September 2007 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
London, National Portrait Gallery; Vancouver Art Gallery; Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Cindy Sherman, June 2019-January 2021.
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