William Eggleston

dye-transfer print, signed and dated in pencil on the reverse, 1971

Collection of Joshua P. Smith, Washington, D. C.

Phillips New York, Color Photographs from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith, 4 October 1998, Sale 796, Lot 21

William Eggleston's Guide (The Museum of Modern Art, 2002 edition), p. 105

William Eggleston (Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, 2002), p. 61

This dye-transfer print is in generally excellent condition. The colors are vibrant and saturated, without any apparent fading. In raking light, the following are visible: a few small soft and sharp handling creases and scratches that do not appear to break the emulsion; and a small glossy deposit and a faint linear deposit of indeterminate nature in the right portion of the image. There is minor creasing to the margin corners and the upper margin is slightly rippled. The number '2' is in an unidentified hand in red crayon in the lower right margin corner. There are traces from previous hinging on the reverse. Although 'William Eggleston's Guide' dates this image 1971, Eggleston has dated this print 1970.
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