William Eggleston

Untitled (Greenwood, Mississippi)

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180,000 - 220,000 EUR

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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection

William Eggleston

b. 1939

Untitled (Greenwood, Mississippi)

dye-transfer print, signed and inscribed 'To Walter' in pencil and stamped 'No. 00255' on the reverse, framed

image: 11⅞ by 18½ in. (30.2 by 47 cm.)

frame: 24⅝ by 28¾ in. (73 by 62.5 cm.)

Executed in 1973.

The artist to Walter Hopps, Los Angeles

Acquired in 2004 in a private transaction through Phillips de Pury & Company by the present owner

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

Exh. cat., Vienna, The Albertina Museum, American Photography, 2020, p. 149

William Eggleston, Ancient and Modern, New York, 1992, p. 29

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

Exh. cat, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, William Eggleston, 2002, cover and pl. 110

Elisabeth Sussman and Thomas Weski, William Eggleston: The Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008, New York, 2008, title page and pl. 77

Peter Galassi, Walker Evans and Company, New York, 2000, p. 191

Sylvia Wolf, Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2002, p. 99

Rudolf Kicken, Annette Kicken, and Simone Förster, eds., Points of View: Masterpieces of Photography and Their Stories, Köln, 2007, p. 184

Kevin Moore, Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980, Berlin, 2010, pl. 124

Exh. cat., Berlin, me Collectors Room Berlin, The Moment Is Eternity: Works from the Olbricht Collection, September 2018 - January 2019, p. 99 (this print)