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EDWARD WESTON (1886–1958)
Dunes, Oceano, 1936
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1951 by Brett Weston for Fiftieth Anniversary Portfolio
initialed and dated in pencil (mount, recto); stamped portfolio print ‘No. 12’ (mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed gallery label (mat, verso)
image/sheet: 7 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (18.4 x 24.1 cm.)
mount: 13 5/8 x 16 in. (34.6 x 40.6 cm.)
This print is number twelve from an edition of 100 from portfolio Fiftieth Anniversary Portfolio (Carmel, California, 1951).


Provenance
Acquired from family of the artist by photographer Joseph Sterling, late 1950s;
by descent to the widow of the above, 2010;
from the above to a private collection, New York.
Literature
Kathy Kelsey Foley, Edward Weston's Gifts to His Sister, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, 1978, p. 47.
Beaumont Newhall, Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston, A New York Graphic Society Book; Little, Brown and Company; Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Boston, 1986, pl. 126, p. 181.
Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, 1992, fig. 943/1936.
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