William Eggleston - Photographs New York Tuesday, October 1, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private Collection, California
    Christie's, New York, 26 April 2005, lot 89

  • 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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World View: Property from a Private Collection

154

Untitled from Louisiana Project

1980s
Dye transfer print.
6 1/2 x 10 in. (16.5 x 25.4 cm)
Signed in ink on the verso; annotated '*2' in red crayon in the margin.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $15,000

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Photographs

New York Auction 1 October 2019