Untitled #96

Cindy Sherman, an American visual artist, created Untitled #96 in 1981. It is part of her Centerfold series of 12 images. A print was auctioned for US$3.89 million on May 11, 2011, the highest price paid for a photographic print at the time, though the price has since been surpassed. On May 8, 2012, another print was sold at Christie's New York for $2,882,500.

The artist is depicted in the portrait as a young teenage girl with short blonde hair, resting on a linoleum floor, wearing an orange sweater and a short skirt, clutching a scrap of newspaper. Cindy Sherman elaborated on the composition: "I was thinking of a young girl who may have been cleaning the kitchen for her mother and who ripped something out of the newspaper, something asking 'Are you lonely?' or 'Do you want to be friends?' or 'Do you want to go on a vacation?' She's cleaning the floor, she rips this out and she's thinking about it".

As one of the most expensive photographs ever sold, Untitled #96 is available in prints at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

Artist: Cindy Sherman
Price: $3.9 million