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

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  • Provenance

    Kennedy Boesky Gallery, New York, 2003

  • Exhibited

    American Scene Photography: Martin Z. Margulies Collection, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, 30 October 2014 – 22 March 2015

  • Literature

    Scalo, William Eggleston: Los Alamos, p. 113

  • 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 (Coke Cooler & Pearl Sign)

1965-1974
Dye transfer print from Los Alamos, printed 2002.
17 7/8 x 12 in. (45.4 x 30.5 cm)
Signed in ink in the margin; numbered 6/7 in an unidentified hand in ink within the Eggleston Artistic Trust Los Alamos copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp on the verso; collection label affixed to the verso.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $16,510

Contact Specialist

Caroline Deck
Senior Specialist, Photographs
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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