William Eggleston - Photographs New York Wednesday, October 14, 2020 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Christie's, New York, 17 October 2006, lot 198
    Sotheby's, New York, 3 April 2012, lot 173

  • 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 (flowering field)

1978
Dye transfer print, printed 1980.
10 3/4 x 15 5/8 in. (27.3 x 39.7 cm)
Signed in ink and reproduction limitation stamp on the verso. Number 17 from an edition of 25.

Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

Sold for $25,000

Contact Specialist

Sarah Krueger
Head of Department, Photographs

Vanessa Hallett
Worldwide Head of Photographs and Deputy Chairwoman, Americas

 

Photographs

New York Auction 14 October 2020