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Cindy Sherman is an American photographer known for creating outlandish portraits that often depicted sexual stereotypes and commented on social role-playing. You can shop a selection of Cindy Sherman pieces from some of the world’s top art dealers on 1stDibs.
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The Nine Lives of Cindy, porcelain plate & official COA in box Lt Edition of 100
By Cindy Sherman
Located in New York, NY
Cindy Sherman
The Nine Lives of Cindy, 2019
Printed Bone Porcelain
12 1/2 in diameter
Limited Edition of 100
Plate signed verso and also accompanied by plate signed documentation card/official Certificate of Authenticity
In original box
Produced exclusively for the National Portrait Gallery in the United Kingdom on the occasion of the 2019 Cindy Sherman exhibition which also traveled to the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Acquired directly from the National Portrait Gallery before it sold out.
Cindy Sherman Biography:
Born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Cindy Sherman lives and works in New York NY. Her ground-breaking photographs have interrogated themes around representation and identity in contemporary media for over four decades. Coming to prominence in the late 1970s with the Pictures Generation group alongside artists such as Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince and Louise Lawler, Sherman studied art at Buffalo State College in 1972 where she turned her attention to photography. In 1977, shortly after moving to New York, Sherman began her critically acclaimed Untitled Film Stills. A suite of 69 black and white portraits, Untitled Film Stills sees Sherman impersonate a myriad of stereotypical female characters and caricatures inspired by Hollywood pictures, film noir, and B movies. Using a range of costumes, props and backdrops to manipulate her own appearance and to create photographs resembling promotional film images, the series explores the tension between artifice and identity in consumer culture which has preoccupied the artist’s practice ever since.
Sherman continued to channel and reconstruct familiar personas known to the collective psyche, often in unsettling ways. In 1981, the artist created her Centerfolds, a series of photographic double spreads inspired by men’s erotic magazines...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Paper, Mixed Media, Screen
Mrs. Claus
By Cindy Sherman
Located in New York, NY
Created by Cindy Sherman in 1990, Mrs. Claus is an original chromogenic print that is hand-signed and dated on the verso from an edition of 125, measuring 14 x 11 in. (36 x 28 cm), u...
Category
20th Century Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled (Pregnant Woman), Signed Limited Edition Color Coupler Print
By Cindy Sherman
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Since the late 1970's Cindy Sherman has donned an array of personas, disguises and costumes to explore how woman are perceived, presented and judged in Western culture.
In this ico...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print
Cindy Sherman - UNTITLED #414 (CLOWNS. 2003) Limited Skate Modern Photography
By Cindy Sherman
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Cindy Sherman - UNTITLED #414 (CLOWNS. 2003)
Date of creation: 2022
Medium: Digital print on Canadian maple wood
Edition: 50
Size: 80 x 20 cm (each skate)
Condition: In mint conditio...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Wood, Maple, Screen
Cindy Sherman, Untitled (Parkett 29) - Signed Multiple, Artist's Frame
By Cindy Sherman
Located in Hamburg, DE
Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954)
Untitled (Parkett 29), 1991
Medium: Printed silk padded in gilded wooden frame (as issued)
Dimensions: 21 × 17 x 2.5 cm (8⅜ × 6¾ in)
Edition of 100 ...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Silk, Wood
1997 Cindy Sherman 'Office Killer (Yellow)'
By Cindy Sherman
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 39.75 x 27 inches ( 100.965 x 68.58 cm )
Image Size: 39.75 x 27 inches ( 100.965 x 68.58 cm )
Framed: No
Condition: B-: Good Condition, Signs of Handling and Age
Additional Details: Poster for the 1997 American comedy-horror film directed by Cindy Sherman. Starring Carol Kane, David Thornton and Molly Ringwald...
Category
1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
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