William Eggleston - Photographs New York Monday, July 13, 2020 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Gallery of Contemporary Photography, Los Angeles, 1999

  • Literature

    Szarkowski, William Eggleston's Guide, p. 30
    Moore, Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980, pl. 120

  • 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 (Sumner, Mississippi, Cassidy Bayou in the Background)

1972
Dye transfer print, printed 1999.
14 3/8 x 21 3/4 in. (36.5 x 55.2 cm)
Signed in ink in the margin; signed by William J. Eggleston III, Managing Trustee, titled, dated and numbered 9/15, all in ink within the Eggleston Artistic Trust copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp on the verso.

Estimate
$60,000 - 80,000 

Sold for $62,500

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New York Auction 13 July 2020