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Lot 426 | To my little sister for Cindy Sherman
Estimate
8.000
- 12.000
€
D F
Result:
(incl. premium)
10.965 €
MORIMURA, YASUMASA
1951 Osaka
Title: To my little sister for Cindy Sherman.
Date: 1998.
Technique: C-print laid down aluminium.
Sheet Size: 135 x 82cm.
Notation: Signed, dated and numbered (verso on back of frame).
Number: 1/12.
Frame: Framed. Not examined out of the frame.
Provenance:
- Soh Gallery, Tokyo (label)
- Private collection Tokyo
- Christie's, New York, auction 15.5.2020, lot 41 (label)
Exhibitions:
- Helsinki City Art Museum 2005
Literature:
- Exhibition catalogues Japan Pop, Helsinki City Art Museum 2005, ill. p. 44
This work references Cindy Sherman's "Untitled #96" from 1981. Morimura stages himself analogous to Sherman's well-known piece. In the manner of "Appropriation Art" he appropriates her work, thus carrying over the feminist discourse started by the female artist into the area of queer debate.
1951 Osaka
Title: To my little sister for Cindy Sherman.
Date: 1998.
Technique: C-print laid down aluminium.
Sheet Size: 135 x 82cm.
Notation: Signed, dated and numbered (verso on back of frame).
Number: 1/12.
Frame: Framed. Not examined out of the frame.
Provenance:
- Soh Gallery, Tokyo (label)
- Private collection Tokyo
- Christie's, New York, auction 15.5.2020, lot 41 (label)
Exhibitions:
- Helsinki City Art Museum 2005
Literature:
- Exhibition catalogues Japan Pop, Helsinki City Art Museum 2005, ill. p. 44
This work references Cindy Sherman's "Untitled #96" from 1981. Morimura stages himself analogous to Sherman's well-known piece. In the manner of "Appropriation Art" he appropriates her work, thus carrying over the feminist discourse started by the female artist into the area of queer debate.
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29% buyer’s premium on the hammer price
29% buyer’s premium on the hammer price
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Stock Id: 68004-52