Lot 327 
327
Cindy Sherman
Untitled #238, 1987/1990.
Color photograph.C-print, mounted on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 50,000 / $ 58,000 Sold:
€ 64,500 / $ 74,820 (incl. surcharge)
Cindy Sherman
1954
Untitled #238. 1987/1990.
Color photograph.C-print, mounted on cardboard.
Signed, dated and numbered on the reverse. From an edition of 6 copies. 226 x 150 cm (88.9 x 59 in), the full sheet. [AW].
• Through alienation and decontextualization, Cindy Sherman's compositions question ideals and identities shaped by media and society.
• Sherman reveals the ugly aspects of today's society in a complex and grotesque manner.
• Formerly part of the renowned Lambert Art Collection, Avignon.
• Another copy from this edition is in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• Over the last ten years alone, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, among others, have shown large-scale solo exhibitions of the artist's work.
PROVENANCE: Metro Pictures, New York (with the gallery label on the reverse of the frame).
Lambert Art Collection, Avignon (acquired from the above in 1996).
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above in 2015).
LITERATURE: Rosalind Krauss, Cindy Sherman: 1975-1993, New York 1993 (with color illu. on p. 150, different copy).
Lena Essling (ed.), Cindy Sherman. Untitled horrors, Ostfildern 2013 (with color illu. on p. 130, different copy).
Christie's, London, A Visual Odyssey - Selections from LAC (Lambert Art Collection) staged by Jacques Grange, October 14, 2015, lot 75 (with illu. on p. 58).
1954
Untitled #238. 1987/1990.
Color photograph.C-print, mounted on cardboard.
Signed, dated and numbered on the reverse. From an edition of 6 copies. 226 x 150 cm (88.9 x 59 in), the full sheet. [AW].
• Through alienation and decontextualization, Cindy Sherman's compositions question ideals and identities shaped by media and society.
• Sherman reveals the ugly aspects of today's society in a complex and grotesque manner.
• Formerly part of the renowned Lambert Art Collection, Avignon.
• Another copy from this edition is in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• Over the last ten years alone, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, among others, have shown large-scale solo exhibitions of the artist's work.
PROVENANCE: Metro Pictures, New York (with the gallery label on the reverse of the frame).
Lambert Art Collection, Avignon (acquired from the above in 1996).
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above in 2015).
LITERATURE: Rosalind Krauss, Cindy Sherman: 1975-1993, New York 1993 (with color illu. on p. 150, different copy).
Lena Essling (ed.), Cindy Sherman. Untitled horrors, Ostfildern 2013 (with color illu. on p. 130, different copy).
Christie's, London, A Visual Odyssey - Selections from LAC (Lambert Art Collection) staged by Jacques Grange, October 14, 2015, lot 75 (with illu. on p. 58).
327
Cindy Sherman
Untitled #238, 1987/1990.
Color photograph.C-print, mounted on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 50,000 / $ 58,000 Sold:
€ 64,500 / $ 74,820 (incl. surcharge)
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