Live Auction 10384Post War & Contemporary Art Day Auction
Cindy Sherman (b. 1954)
Lot 209 PROPERTY SOLD TO BENEFIT SCHINKEL PAVILLON BERLIN

Cindy Sherman (b. 1954)

Untitled (Male/Female Artist)

Closed17 October 2015

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GBP 8,125

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Cindy Sherman (b. 1954)
Untitled (Male/Female Artist)
each: signed, numbered and dated 'Cindy Sherman 25/150 1980/2012' (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print, in two parts
each image: 9 ¼ x 6 ¼in. (23.8 x 16cm.)
each sheet: 10 x 8in. (25.4 x 20.3cm.)
Conceived in 1980 and printed in 2012, this work is number twenty-five from an edition of hundred fifty

Donated by the Artist, courtesy of Metro Pictures, New York and Sprüth Magers, Berlin/London.

Specialist note

‘I think I was part of a movement, a generation, and maybe the most popular one of that movement at the time, but it probably would have happened without me… The art world was ready for something new, something beyond painting. A group of mostly women happened to be the ones to sort of take that on, partly because they felt excluded from the rest of the [male] art world, and thought, ‘Nobody is playing with photography. Let’s take that as our tool.’’
(C. Sherman, quoted in P. Hoban, ‘The Cindy Sherman Effect’, in ArtNews, February 2012, https://www.artnews.com/2012/02/14/the-cindy-sherman-effect/ [accessed 12 September 2015]).