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Cindy Sherman's most famous piece is arguably her “Untitled Film Stills.” The American artist produced this series of 70 black-and-white photographs between 1977 and 1980. Each image shows Sherman in the guise of an actress playing a role in an arthouse film or B-movie. On 1stDibs, explore a diverse assortment of Cindy Sherman art.
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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
Cindy Sherman, Untitled 103 - Signed Print from 1999, Contemporary Photography
By Cindy Sherman
Located in Hamburg, DE
Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954)
Untitled #103, 1982
Medium: Offset lithograph on paper
Dimensions: 101 × 65 cm (39¾ h × 25½ w in)
Edition size: Unknown (presumably 100 to 200)
Mark...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Untitled
By Cindy Sherman
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Since the late 1970s Cindy Sherman has donned an array of personas, disguises and costumes to explore how woman are perceived, presented and judged in Western culture.
As a young c...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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 Bomb Magazine 1983 (advertisement)
By Cindy Sherman
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Cindy Sherman Bomb Magazine 1983:
A rare advertisement/promotional card featuring photography by Cindy Sherman in conjunction with Bomb Magazine.
Dimensions: 11 x 15 inches.
Medium...
Category
1980s Pop Art More Art
Materials
Offset


