ID 1303513
Lot 35 | WILLIAM EGGLESTON (B. 1939)
Estimate value
$ 200 000 – 300 000
Greenwood, Mississippi ('The Red Ceiling'), 1973
dye transfer print
signed and dated in pencil (verso); credited, titled, dated on exhibition label (frame backing board)
image: 12 ¼ x 18 ½ in. (31.1 x 47 cm.)
sheet: 15 7/8 x 20 in. (40.3 x 50.8 cm.)
Provenance
Acquired by photographer Wilmar Koening (1952-2018), Germany, 1980s;
Kicken Gallery, Berlin;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2005.
Literature
William Eggleston, Ancient and Modern, Random House, 1992, p. 29.
William Eggleston, The Hasselblad Award 1998: William Eggleston, Hasselblad Center, 1999, n.p.
Herve Chandes, William Eggleston, Thames & Hudson, New York, 2002, cover and pl. 110.
Elisabeth Sussman et al., William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, 2008, pl. 77, p. 157
Julian Cox and Kevin Moore, Real to Real: Photographs from the Traina Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2012, pl. 30.
Walter Moser et al., American Photography, The Albertina Museum, Vienna, 2020, p. 149.
Exhibited
Berlin, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Double Exposure: Fotografien von William Eggleston & Wilmar Koenig, September 4, 2004 - October 17, 2004.
San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, Real to Real: Photographs from the Trevor Traina Collection, June 9, 2012 - September 16, 2012.
Vienna, The Albertina Museum, American Photography, August 24, 2021 - November 28, 2021.
| Artist: | William Eggleston (1939) |
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| Auction house category: | Photography |
| Artist: | William Eggleston (1939) |
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| Auction house category: | Photography |
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