Memphis, early 1970s

Name: WILLIAM EGGLESTON (B. 1939)
Brand: Memphis, early 1970s
Price: 75000.00 USD
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Price Realised USD 94,500

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Closed: 13 Apr 2023

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WILLIAM EGGLESTON (B. 1939)

Memphis, early 1970s

Price Realised USD 94,500

Closed: 13 Apr 2023

Price Realised USD 94,500

Closed: 13 Apr 2023

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WILLIAM EGGLESTON (B. 1939)
Memphis, early 1970s
dye transfer print
signed and numbered '7/20' in pencil (verso); credited, titled, dated and numbered on affixed gallery label (frame backing board)
image: 18 x 12 1/8 in. (45.7 x 30.7 cm.)
sheet: 20 x 15 7/8 in. (50.8 x 40.3 cm.)
This work is number seven from an edition of twenty.

Laurence Miller Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above bye the present owner, 1989.

William Eggleston, Eggleston: Ancient and Modern, Random House, New York, 1992, p.31.
Exhibition Catalogue, William Eggleston, Foundation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain & Thames and Hudson, Paris, 2001, p. 101.
William Eggleston, William Eggleston's Guide, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002, p.86.
William Eggleston, William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2003, Whitney Museum of American Art Haus der Kunst, Distributed by Yale University, New York, 2008, pl.32, p.14 and 81.

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Lot Essay

'One can say... that in these photographs form and content are indistinguishable--which is to say that the pictures mean precisely what they appear to mean. Attempting to translate these appearances into words is surely a fool's errand, in the pursuit of which no two fools who choose the same unsatisfactory words.'
--John Szarkowski, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1976.

Memphis and Eggleston seem to have a mutual creative understanding that compels the artist to approach the city with much more discretion and reverence than any of the individuals he treats like hunting trophies that have stumbled into his cross-hairs. His compositions are colorful cocktails of muddled cynicism and delighted fascination. This whimsicality and wit has resonated with a wide audience since Eggleston has changed the medium of fine art photography forever in his groundbreaking exhibition in 1976 at the Museum of Modern Art: A print of the image offered here was included in this exhibition.

Subsequently, Eggleston's work has been the subject of exhibitions at institutions worldwide including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the Barbican Gallery, London; documenta IX, Kassel, Germany; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In more recent years, his work has been featured in exhibitions at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; National Portrait Gallery, London; and Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam. Along the way, Eggleston has established himself as an indelible pioneer of photography as a contemporary art form.