William Eggleston - Photographs London Wednesday, November 6, 2013 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    From the artist; to Donna Leatherman, LLC, New York
    Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 8 October 2010, lot 259

  • 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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White Ceiling Fan, Washington, D.C. (In the Home of William Christenberry)

1990
Dye transfer print.
22.9 x 34.3 cm (9 x 13 1/2 in)
Signed and annotated 'AP' in pencil on the verso. One from an edition of 9 plus artist's proof.

Estimate
£14,000 - 18,000 

Sold for £17,500

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Photographs

London 7 November 2013 4pm