Photo © Phillips — view this lot on Phillips ↗Near Extinct Wannalaw Plantation, Mississippi, circa 1972
Photograph · ed. 6/9
Phillips · Oct 8, 2026$12,255 ≈ £9,281 ≈ €10,956Sign up free to see price
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Troubled Waters
William Eggleston (American, b. 1939)
Unsold / did not meet reserve
Estimate $100,000 – $150,000 (≈ £75,729 – £113,593) (≈ €89,397 – €134,096)
Offered at Phillips and passed / bought in. Counted in the artist’s sell-through rate; no price, so not in price averages.
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- Medium
- Photograph · Photography all photograph results →As published: “New York: Caldecot Chubb, 1980. 15 dye transfer prints”
- Edition
- 5/30
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed
- Category
- Photographs
- Dimensions
- Each approximately 11 1/2 x 17 3/8 in. (29.2 x 44.1 cm) or the reverse.
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- Photographs (NY040326)
- Date
- October 8, 2026
- Location
- New York, United States
- Lot
- 23
- Estimate
- $100,000 – $150,000 (≈ £75,729 – £113,593) (≈ €89,397 – €134,096)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Oct 13, 2026
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