LOT L2 WILLIAM EGGLESTON / UNTITLED (1983/1999) FR. DEMOCRATIC FOREST Dye transfer print 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm), print size Auction estimate: $55,000 Gift of the artist and Gagosian Gallery Untitled (1983/1990), by William Eggleston is an intimate glimpse into the life of the artist, a self-portrait in the form of an eloquent still life. This dye-transfer print is from Eggleston's Democratic Forest series of autobiographical images made between 1983-1986. "I was photographing democratically" the artist said, explaining his openness to photographing all subjects, high and low. Born in 1939 in Memphis, Eggleston is a giant among 20th Century photographers and a critically influential artist among painters as well. He is credited with legitimizing color photography as a fine art form, pioneering the use of dye-transfer technology. More than a century after the advent of color film and a decade after popular media fused with contemporary art, his first museum exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1976, was also the first fine-art exhibition of color photography. Eggleston has been the subject of many prestigious museum exhibitions including The J.Paul Getty Museum, LACMA, the Whitney Museum, and the Corcoran Gallery. His show At War With the Obvious is now on view at MOMA, and his exhibition New Dyes will be exhibited and become part of the Tate Modern's permanent collection this year. PREV   2 OF 49   NEXT