Lot 97
Lot 97
WILLIAM EGGLESTON (B. 1939)

Greenwood, Mississippi, c. 1972

Price Realised USD 32,500
Estimate
USD 40,000 - USD 60,000
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WILLIAM EGGLESTON (B. 1939)

Greenwood, Mississippi, c. 1972

Price Realised USD 32,500
Price Realised USD 32,500
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WILLIAM EGGLESTON (B. 1939)
Greenwood, Mississippi, c. 1972
dye transfer print, printed c. 1986
signed in ink, numbered 'three from an edition eight' in pencil in edition stamp, also with 'William Eggleston's Guide' stamp (verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed gallery label (mat, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed exhibition labels (frame backing board)
image: 2012 x 1334 in. (52.1 x 34.9 cm.)
sheet: 2434 x 1812 in. (62.8 x 46.9 cm.)
This work is number three from an edition of eight.
Provenance
Deborah Bell, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1995.
Literature
Gunilla Knape (ed.), William Eggleston, Scalo, Zurich, 1999, n.p.
John Szarkowski, William Eggleston's Guide, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002, p. 95.
W.M. Hunt, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious, Aperture, New York, 2011, p. 245.
Exhibited
Arles, Recontres de la Photographie; Lausanne, Musée de l'Élysée; Amsterdam, FOAM Fotogafiemuseum, Sans Regard or No Eyes: Photographs from W.M. Hunt / Collection Dancing Bear, 2005-2007.
Ocala, Appelton Museum of Fine Arts, The Unseen Eye: Photography from the Collection of W.M. Hunt, November 7, 2010–January 2, 2011.
Rochester, George Eastman House, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, October 1, 2011–February 19, 2012.
Portland, Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, The Unseen Eye, September 6–30, 2012.
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