William Eggleston - Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation New York Thursday, April 4, 2024 | Phillips

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  •  “When people ask me what I do, I say that I’m taking pictures of life today.”
    —William Eggleston

    • Provenance

      Cheim & Read, New York

    • Exhibited

      Through You: Photography Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 4 September – 24 October 2008

    • Literature

      Prodger, William Eggleston: Portraits, pl. 54
      University of Pennsylvania, Through You: Photography Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, exhibition catalogue, p. 9

    • Artist Biography

      William Eggleston

      American • 1939

      William Eggleston's highly saturated, vivid images, predominantly capturing the American South, highlight the beauty and lush diversity in the unassuming everyday. Although influenced by legends of street photography Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eggleston broke away from traditional black and white photography and started experimenting with color in the late 1960s.

      At the time, color photography was widely associated with the commercial rather than fine art — something that Eggleston sought to change. His 1976 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Color Photographs, fundamentally shifted how color photography was viewed within an art context, ushering in institutional acceptance and helping to ensure Eggleston's significant legacy in the history of photography.

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Untitled (Couple in Red Car at Drive-In Restaurant), Memphis, TN

1965-1968
Dye transfer print from Dust Bells Volume II, printed 2004.
11 3/4 x 17 3/4 in. (29.8 x 45.1 cm)
Signed in ink in the margin; dated and numbered 12/15 in an unidentified hand in ink within the Eggleston Artistic Trust copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp on the verso.

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Estimate
$30,000 - 50,000 

Sold for $57,150

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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation

New York Auction 4 April 2024