William Eggleston - Photographs London Monday, November 17, 2014 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Christie's, New York, 'Photographs by William Eggleston from the Collection of Bruce and Nancy Berman', 13 October 2008, lot 120

  • Literature

    W. Eggleston, For Now, Santa Fe, N.M.: Twin Palms, 2010
    William Eggleston: Chromes, Vol. 3, Göttingen: Steidl, 2011

  • 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 (Two women wearing head scarves, Memphis)

1970
Dye transfer print from Dust Bells, Vol. I, printed 2004.
30.2 x 45.2 cm (11 7/8 x 17 3/4 in.)
Signed in ink in the margin; dated, numbered 2/15 in an unidentified hand in ink, Eggleston Artistic Trust copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamp on the verso. One from an edition of 15 plus 4 lettered artist's proofs.

Estimate
£8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for £10,000

Contact Specialist
Lou Proud
Head of Photographs
London
+ 44 207 318 4018

Photographs

London 18 November 2014