Sandy Skoglund (American, b. 1946), The Cocktail Party

C-print, 1992, ink signed, titled, dated, and numbered 30/30 at lower right, framed under Plexiglass.

This work is accompanied by a magazine article showing the Pilloffs with this photograph in situ, an exhibition pamphlet showing this image as the cover; a Toledo Museum of Art 1999 exhibition poster with a detail of this image; and a hardbound book, Sandy Skoglund, Reality Under Siege, Smith College Museum of Art, of which this work is the cover image.

48 1/8 x 65 in.

The Contemporary Art Collection of Francine & Benson Pilloff, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

To create this tableaux for the photograph, Skoglund used live models, mannequins, and furniture all covered in Cheese Doodles.

Sandy Skoglund is an American artist known for creating and photographing vibrant, surrealistic environments. Her interest in popular culture, consumerism, and repetition result in large-scale "staged photographs" that are carefully assembled and fuse the mediums of sculpture, installation art, and photography. Skoglund is a forerunner in her field, working alongside other major photographers such as Cindy Sherman and David LaChapelle.

Skoglund's work is present in most major institutions that house photography, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, Los Angeles; and others.

Excellent condition; not examined out of frame.