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

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  • Provenance

    Cheim & Read, New York, 2004

  • 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 (Torch Café Billboard), Mississippi

circa 1973
Dye transfer print from Dust Bells, Volume II, printed 2004.
11 7/8 x 17 3/4 in. (30.2 x 45.1 cm) image
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm) sheet

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.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $16,510

Contact Specialist

Caroline Deck
Senior Specialist, Photographs
cdeck@phillips.com

Vanessa Hallett
Worldwide Head of Photographs and Chairwoman, Americas
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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation

New York Auction 4 April 2024