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Cindy Sherman (b. 1954)
Lot 55

Cindy Sherman (b. 1954)

Untitled (#424)

Closed16 February 2011

Price Realised

GBP 193,250

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Cindy Sherman (b. 1954)
Untitled (#424)
signed and dated 'Cindy Sherman 2004' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
colour photograph
54 3/8 x 55¼in. (137.9 x 140.2cm.)
Executed in 2004, this work is from an edition of six

Metro Pictures, New York.
Sprüth Magers, Munich.

Specialist note

'The choice of the clown image implies not only the endorsement of a pictorial or poetic motif, but also an alternative, parodic way of addressing the question of art itself...The artist's ironic game is an interpretation of the self, by the self: a mocking revelation of the true nature of art and the artist'
(J. Starobinski, quoted in J.-P. Criqui, 'The Lady Vanishes', Cindy Sherman, exh. cat., Paris, 2006, p. 273).