Cindy Sherman (b. 1954)

Details
Cindy Sherman (b. 1954)

Untitled #219

color photograph mounted on foamcore in artist's frame
59¼ x 41in. (150.4 x 104cm.)

Executed in 1990. This is number one from an edition of six.

Provenance
Metro Pictures, New York
Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica
Literature
A. Danto, Cindy Sherman History Portraits, New York 1991, no. 12 (illustration of another example)
R. Krauss, Cindy Sherman 1975-1993, New York 1993, p. 166 (illustration of another example)
Exhibited
Milwaukee Art Museum; Miami, Center for the Fine Arts, and Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Cindy Sherman, Jan.-Oct. 1991, no. 14

Lot Essay

The History Portraits were executed mainly in Rome, over a period of two months, in a studio in Trastevere which was given to the artist as a kind of residence fellowship. Most were made from reproductions in books of French or Italian portraits...Sherman could as easily have produced these works in New York, though as she put it, Rome was good for her "research," which consisted in finding simulacra of what people actually wore in the pictures, looking through the flea market at the Porto Portese for fabric and props she might have been hard pressed to find in New York (A. Danto, op. cit., p. 11).