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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection

William Eggleston

Memphis

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220,000 - 280,000 EUR

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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection

William Eggleston

b. 1939

Memphis


dye-transfer print, signed and dated 'c. 1970' in ink on the reverse, framed

image: 12⅛ by 17¼ in. (30.6 by 43.7 cm.)

framed: 24⅝ by 28⅝ in. (62.5 by 72.5 cm.)

Executed in 1970.

Private collection, Southern United States

Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg New York, 17 October 2003, lot 29

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Berlin, me Collectors Room Berlin, The Moment is Eternity: Works from the Olbricht Collection, September 2018 - January 2019

John Szarkowski, William Eggleston’s Guide (New York, 1976), cover and pp. 80-1

William Eggleston (Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 1992), fig. 7, cat nos. 48-9, p. 38

Keith Davis, An American Century of Photography, from Dry-Plate to Digital: The Hallmark Photographic Collection (New York, 1999), p. 471

The Hasselblad Award 1998: William Eggleston (Zürich, 1999), unpaginated

William Eggleston (Paris: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, 2002), pl. 94

William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 (New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2008), pl. 22, p. 67

Kevin Moore, Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980 (Berlin, 2010), pl. 138

The Moment is Eternity: Works from the Olbricht Collection (Berlin: me Collectors Room Berlin, 2019), p. 101 (this print)

Jeff Rosenheim, Photography's Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection (New York, 2020), p. 86