Live Auction 14189Post-War and Contemporary Art Afternoon Session
Cindy Sherman (b. 1954)
Lot 764 VISIONARIES: WORKS FROM THE EMILY AND JERRY SPIEGEL COLLECTION

Cindy Sherman (b. 1954)

Untitled #206

Closed18 May 2017

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Cindy Sherman (b. 1954)
Untitled #206
signed, numbered and dated 'Cindy Sherman 1/6 1989' (on the reverse of the backing board)
color coupler print in artist's frame
75 x 53 in. (190.5 x 134.6 cm.)
Executed in 1989. This work is number one from an edition of six.

Metro Pictures, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1990

Specialist note

"Once I’m set up, the camera starts clicking, then I just start to move and watch how I move in the mirror. It’s not like I’m method acting or anything. I don’t feel that I am that person. I may be thinking about a certain story or situation, but I don’t become her. There’s this distance. The image in the mirror becomes her – the image the camera gets on the film. And the one thing I’ve always known is that the camera lies.” (C. Sherman, quoted in E. Respini, “Will the Real Cindy Sherman Please Stand Up?”, Cindy Sherman, exh. cat, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2012, p. 23)