William Eggleston - Photographs New York Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | Phillips
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  • Provenance

    Christie's, New York, Photographic Masterworks by William Eggleston Sold to Benefit the Eggleston Artistic Trust, 12 March 2012, lot 36

  • Literature

    Eggleston, Ancient and Modern, p. 72

  • 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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349

Untitled

1980
Pigment print, printed 2012.
32 5/8 x 48 in. (82.9 x 121.9 cm)
Overall 44 3/8 x 60 in. (112.7 x 152.4 cm)

Signed in ink and printed Eggleston Artistic Trust copyright credit reproduction limitation on a label affixed to the reverse of the flush-mount. Number 1 from an edition of 2.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

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New York Auction 9 October 2024