Provenance
Metro Pictures, New York
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Cindy Sherman, July 9 – October 4, 1987 (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, May 7 – August 13, 1989 (another example exhibited)
Milan, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea di Milano, Cindy Sherman, October 4 – November 4, 1990 (another example exhibited)
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Cindy Sherman: Film Stills, March 15 – June 25, 1995 (another example exhibited)
Shiga, Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman, July 6 – August 18, 1996; Muragame, Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, September 8 – October 13, 1996; Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, October 26 – December 15, 1996 (another example exhibited)
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Cindy Sherman, March 10 – May 19, 1996; Madrid, Palacio de Velázquez, Parque del Retiro Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, July 8 – September 22, 1996; Bilbao, Sala de Exposiciones REKALDE, October 15 – December 1, 1996; Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, January 19 – March 23, 1997 (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, November 2, 1997 – February 1, 1998; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, February 28 – May 31, 1998; Prague, Galerie Rudofinum, June 25 – August 23, 1998; London, Barbican Art Gallery, September 10 – December 13, 1998; Bordeaux, CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain, February 6 – April 25, 1999; Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, June 4 – August 29, 1999; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, October 1, 1999 – January 2, 2000 (another example exhibited)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills, June 26 – September 2, 1997 (another example exhibited)
Paris, Jeu de Paume, Cindy Sherman, May 16 – September 3, 2006; Kunsthaus Bregenz, November 25, 2006 – January 14, 2007; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Art, February 9 – May 13, 2007; Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, June 15 – September 10, 2007 (another example exhibited)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman, February 26 – June 11, 2012 (another example exhibited)
Literature
E. Barents, Cindy Sherman, Munich, 1982, no. 3 (another example illustrated)
P. Schjeldahl and L. Phillips, Cindy Sherman, New York, 1987, no. 3 (another example illustrated)
M. Meneguzzo, ed., Cindy Sherman, Milan, 1990, p. 19 (another example illustrated)
A. C. Danto, Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills, Munich 1990, pl. 3, pp. 20-21 (another example illustrated)
R. Krauss, Cindy Sherman 1975-1993, New York, 1993, pp. 2-3 and p. 44 (another example illustrated)
P.D. Rosenzweig, Cindy Sherman: Film Stills, Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 1995 (another example illustrated)
Z. Felix and M. Schwander, Cindy Sherman: Photographic Work 1975-1995, London, 1995, pl. 31 (another example illustrated)
Cindy Sherman, Shiga, Museum of Modern Art, 1996, p. 58 (another example illustrated)
T. Schoon and K. Schampers, Cindy Sherman, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, 1996, pp. 28-29, no. 6 (another example illustrated)
A. Cruz, A. Jones and E. Smith, Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, New York, 1997, p. 57, no. 4 (another example illustrated)
R. Durand, Cindy Sherman, Paris, Jeu de Paume, 2006, pp. 46 and 241 (another example illustrated)
E. Respini, Cindy Sherman, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2012, pl. 50, p. 109 (another example illustrated)
Catalogue Essay
In Untitled Film Still #4, 1977, Sherman presents herself elegantly dressed in a matching skirt and jacket in the fashion of Post World War II America. A pillbox hat sits precariously on her blond tresses, while a rich dark coat hangs over both her shoulders. She leans against what appears to be a doorway within a hotel corridor. She is alone in an empty, dimly lit hallway, which recedes into darkness. Her eyes are shut and face drawn, perhaps in desperation, as she ponders whether to knock on the door. Beyond the mere formal qualities of the work, the viewer is invited to contemplate the narrative of this pivotal moment. Is she waiting for someone to emerge from behind the door, or perhaps invite her in? None of these possibilities are resolved. Sherman, as both the artist and subject, reinvents herself as an anonymous woman: unidentifiable, incognito, and unnamed. Throughout the Film Stills, Sherman changes at will between the tantalizing seductress, the compassionate housewife, and the glamorous idol. Although these personas and characters are fictitious, they are instantly recognizable to the viewer. The strength and power of Sherman’s Film Stills becomes evident when the viewer projects his or her memories, imaginations and desires upon Sherman’s archetypes; through this transcendence, the viewer becomes engulfed in Sherman’s world.
Artist Biography
Cindy Sherman
American • 1954
Seminal to the Pictures Generation as well as contemporary photography and performance art, Cindy Sherman is a powerhouse art practitioner. Wily and beguiling, Sherman's signature mode of art making involves transforming herself into a litany of characters, historical and fictional, that cross the lines of gender and culture. She startled contemporary art when, in 1977, she published a series of untitled film stills.
Through mise-en-scène and movie-like make-up and costume, Sherman treats each photograph as a portrait, though never one of herself. She embodies her characters even if only for the image itself. Presenting subversion through mimicry, against tableaus of mass media and image-based messages of pop culture, Sherman takes on both art history and the art world.
Though a shape-shifter, Sherman has become an art world celebrity in her own right. The subject of solo retrospectives across the world, including a blockbuster showing at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and a frequent exhibitor at the Venice Biennale among other biennials, Sherman holds an inextricable place in contemporary art history.
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Cindy Sherman

Untitled Film Still #4

1977
gelatin silver print
30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Signed, numbered, and dated “Cindy Sherman, 3/3, 1977” lower right. This work is number three from an edition of three.

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$400,000 - 600,000

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Felix Gonzalez-Torres
“Untitled” (Last Light)
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Richard Prince
Untitled #14
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Christopher Wool
Untitled (S 69)
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Andy Warhol
Gun
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Maurizio Cattelan
Daddy Daddy
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled
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Cindy Sherman
Untitled #414
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Andy Warhol
Mao
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Christopher Wool
Untitled (P 66)
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Roy Lichtenstein
Still Life with Cash Box
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Cindy Sherman
Untitled #94
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Christopher Wool
Slop Dog
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Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #4
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Andy Warhol
Statue of Liberty
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Richard Estes
On The Staten Island Ferry Looking Toward Manhattan (L'Embarquement Pour Cythere)
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Ed Ruscha
Anchor Stuck in Sand
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Roy Lichtenstein
Brushstroke Nude
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Gerhard Richter
Abstraktes Bild 638-4
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Willem de Kooning
Untitled VI
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Cy Twombly
Untitled
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Cy Twombly
Untitled (Paris, May 1963)
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Yayoi Kusama
Infinity Nets OPQR
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Anish Kapoor
Untitled
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Robert Mangold
1/2 V Series
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Cy Twombly
Untitled (Bolsena)
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Philip Guston
Inside
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Claes Oldenburg
Popsicle, Hamburger, Price
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Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol
Del Monte
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Joan Mitchell
Sunflowers
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Tom Wesselmann
Reclining Stockinged Nude #6
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Maurizio Cattelan
Untitled
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Richard Prince
Emergency Nurse
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Thomas Schütte
Untitled (United Enemies)
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Glenn Brown
Dead Relatives
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George Condo
The Three Graces
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Urs Fischer
Late Late Night Show
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Andreas Gursky
Prada II
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Robert Gober
Untitled
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Richard Prince
Untitled (Protest Painting)
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Barbara Kruger
Untitled (You Can't Drag Your Money Into The Grave With You)
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Sterling Ruby
Kiss Trap Kismet
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Seth Price
Repossessed Audi/Bronze Custom Job
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Kelley Walker
Untitled
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Dana Schutz
Death Comes to Us All
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