Property from an Important Midwest Collection Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still (#36) 1979 gelatin silver print, mounted on foamcore 37 3/4 x 27 3/4 in. (95.9 x 70.5 cm) Signed, numbered and dated "Cindy Sherman 2/3 1979" on the reverse of the backing board; further numbered "#36" lower right of the mat.
Provenance Metro Pictures, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner Exhibited Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Directions: Cindy Sherman - Film Stills, March 15 - June 25, 1995 (another example exhibited) Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Cindy Sherman March 10 - May 19, 1996, then traveled to Madrid, Palacio de Velzques, Parque del Retiro Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (July 8 - September 22, 1996), Bilbao, Sala de Exposiciones REKALDE (October 15 - December 1, 1996), Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (January 1 - March 23, 1997) (another example exhibited) Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cindy Sherman Retrospective, November 2, 1997 - February 1, 1998, then traveled to Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art (February 21 - May 31, 1998), Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum (June 25 - August 23, 1998), London, Barbican Art Gallery (September 10 - December 13, 1998), Bordeaux, CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux (February 6 - April 25, 1999), Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art (June 4 - August 29, 1999), Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario (October 1, 1999 - January 2, 2000) (another example exhibited) Paris, Jeu de Paume, Cindy Sherman May 16 - September 3, 2006, then traveled to Bregenz, Kunsthaus Bregenz (November 25, 2006 - January 14, 2007), Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (February 9 - May 13, 2007), Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau (June 15 - September 10, 2007) (another example exhibited) New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman February 26 - June 11, 2012, then traveled to San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (July 14 - October 7, 2012), Minneapolis, Walker Art Center (November 10, 2012 - February 17, 2013), Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art (March 17 - June 9, 2013) (another example exhibited) Literature R. Krauss, Cindy Sherman 1975-1993, Rizzoli: New York, 1993, pp. 56, 225 (illustrated) Directions: Cindy Sherman - Film Stills, exh. cat., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 1995, n.p. (illustrated) Cindy Sherman exh. cat., Museum Boijmans Van Bueningen, Rotterdam, 1996, pp. 17, 46 (illustrated) Cindy Sherman exh. cat., Tokyo, 1996, pp. 16, 35 (illustrated) Cindy Sherman Retrospective, exh. cat., The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1997, p. 77 pl. 36 (illustrated) D. Frankel (ed.), The Complete Untitled Film Stills: Cindy Sherman The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2003, pp. 90-91, 159 (illustrated) J. Rouart (ed.), Cindy Sherman exh. cat., Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2006, pp. 54, 243 (illustrated) J. Burton (ed.), "Cindy Sherman," The October Files, MIT Press: Cambridge, 2006, pp. 111-113, 136, 221, no. 30 (illustrated) E. Respini (ed.), Cindy Sherman exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2012, p. 99, pl. 24 (illustrated) Catalogue Essay “I really don’t think that they [Film Stills] are about me. It’s maybe about me not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.” Cindy Sherman Cindy Sherman’s iconic black and white film stills created between 1977 and 1980 host a myriad of women—while Sherman herself may be the model, she emphatically de-categorizes this body of works as self-portraits. She aims to be a blank canvas upon which her female guises are rendered, as movie stars out of an Alfred Hitchcock film with Gregory Peck just a few steps out of the frame. A film still without a film, her photographs leave the characters without a plot; as she once elaborated, “They’re sort of blank. It makes the viewer come up with the narrative.” (Cindy Sherman in “How I Made It: Cindy Sherman on Her 'Untitled Film Stills,’” New York Magazine, April 7, 2008) The present lot, Untitled Film Still (#36) glimpses a dark haired woman undressing, gently peeling away an almost translucent article of clothing. The glowing light from the background creates a sensual, slim silhouette, suggesting the figure as changing behind a curtain, shielded from the bright li
Property from an Important Midwest Collection Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still (#36) 1979 gelatin silver print, mounted on foamcore 37 3/4 x 27 3/4 in. (95.9 x 70.5 cm) Signed, numbered and dated "Cindy Sherman 2/3 1979" on the reverse of the backing board; further numbered "#36" lower right of the mat.
Provenance Metro Pictures, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner Exhibited Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Directions: Cindy Sherman - Film Stills, March 15 - June 25, 1995 (another example exhibited) Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Cindy Sherman March 10 - May 19, 1996, then traveled to Madrid, Palacio de Velzques, Parque del Retiro Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (July 8 - September 22, 1996), Bilbao, Sala de Exposiciones REKALDE (October 15 - December 1, 1996), Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (January 1 - March 23, 1997) (another example exhibited) Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cindy Sherman Retrospective, November 2, 1997 - February 1, 1998, then traveled to Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art (February 21 - May 31, 1998), Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum (June 25 - August 23, 1998), London, Barbican Art Gallery (September 10 - December 13, 1998), Bordeaux, CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux (February 6 - April 25, 1999), Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art (June 4 - August 29, 1999), Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario (October 1, 1999 - January 2, 2000) (another example exhibited) Paris, Jeu de Paume, Cindy Sherman May 16 - September 3, 2006, then traveled to Bregenz, Kunsthaus Bregenz (November 25, 2006 - January 14, 2007), Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (February 9 - May 13, 2007), Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau (June 15 - September 10, 2007) (another example exhibited) New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman February 26 - June 11, 2012, then traveled to San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (July 14 - October 7, 2012), Minneapolis, Walker Art Center (November 10, 2012 - February 17, 2013), Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art (March 17 - June 9, 2013) (another example exhibited) Literature R. Krauss, Cindy Sherman 1975-1993, Rizzoli: New York, 1993, pp. 56, 225 (illustrated) Directions: Cindy Sherman - Film Stills, exh. cat., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 1995, n.p. (illustrated) Cindy Sherman exh. cat., Museum Boijmans Van Bueningen, Rotterdam, 1996, pp. 17, 46 (illustrated) Cindy Sherman exh. cat., Tokyo, 1996, pp. 16, 35 (illustrated) Cindy Sherman Retrospective, exh. cat., The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1997, p. 77 pl. 36 (illustrated) D. Frankel (ed.), The Complete Untitled Film Stills: Cindy Sherman The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2003, pp. 90-91, 159 (illustrated) J. Rouart (ed.), Cindy Sherman exh. cat., Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2006, pp. 54, 243 (illustrated) J. Burton (ed.), "Cindy Sherman," The October Files, MIT Press: Cambridge, 2006, pp. 111-113, 136, 221, no. 30 (illustrated) E. Respini (ed.), Cindy Sherman exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2012, p. 99, pl. 24 (illustrated) Catalogue Essay “I really don’t think that they [Film Stills] are about me. It’s maybe about me not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.” Cindy Sherman Cindy Sherman’s iconic black and white film stills created between 1977 and 1980 host a myriad of women—while Sherman herself may be the model, she emphatically de-categorizes this body of works as self-portraits. She aims to be a blank canvas upon which her female guises are rendered, as movie stars out of an Alfred Hitchcock film with Gregory Peck just a few steps out of the frame. A film still without a film, her photographs leave the characters without a plot; as she once elaborated, “They’re sort of blank. It makes the viewer come up with the narrative.” (Cindy Sherman in “How I Made It: Cindy Sherman on Her 'Untitled Film Stills,’” New York Magazine, April 7, 2008) The present lot, Untitled Film Still (#36) glimpses a dark haired woman undressing, gently peeling away an almost translucent article of clothing. The glowing light from the background creates a sensual, slim silhouette, suggesting the figure as changing behind a curtain, shielded from the bright li
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