Splitting Up a Collection
The art collectors Nancy Goliger and Bruce Berman are divorcing and splitting up their collection of 2,600-plus photographs, reports the New York Times. About 500 of the works will be auctioned at Christie’s New York in three separate sales: the first, set for April 2008, only of works by Diane Arbus; the second, scheduled for October, offering works by William Eggleston; and a third featuring a selection by artists ranging from Dorothea Lange to Walker Evans to emerging artists. The three sales are expected to bring $7 million to $10 million.
The remainder of the collection, a selection of which was shown at the Getty Museum last year, will be donated to three L.A. museums: the Getty, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The remainder of the collection, a selection of which was shown at the Getty Museum last year, will be donated to three L.A. museums: the Getty, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Hello,
My Name is William Bevan and I live in Memphis, Tn. Recently I aquired a box of vintage paper on one of my weekend outings. (I collect and draw on old papers) . I looked through the boxes of the day and to my suprise was this one box that had a few photos. I love to find old photos. A photographer friend of mine came over one night and she looked at the Poloroid and asked me where I got it ... "It looks like William Eggleston." I wonder if the other photo is by him. Since the other is of him ... owned by someone else. The envelope that the photos were in were labels "Barbaras" Maybe one his girlfriends? I read the ladies did like that guy.
****This is how the story goes in my mind: 1. William Eggleston gets all hot and heavy for some girl or vise verca and he and she have some understanding of somesort. 2.William gives photo to girl 3. Girl snaps photo of William (looking at photos) just to add a little more cream to her adventures into the artistic world. 4.Puts in envelope w/ her name on it 5. Forgets about and shelves it 6. Her grandma has an estate sale. 7. I buy box of old paper 8. I have a photographer friend.
Whenever I compare this Poloroid with other photos of the man ... the likeness no matter the age has distinction ... especially in the eyebrows.
Basic: I think I have photo of the Father of Artistic Photography and a photo that he may have taken
Basic #2: What do you do with that type of thing? Sell it?
Basic #3: Ask you.
Cheers,
William Bevan
audiophrases@hotmail.com
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