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EDWARD WESTON (1886–1958)

Shell, 1927

    Price Realised USD 17,640
    Estimate
    USD 15,000 - USD 25,000
    Closed: 3 Apr 2024
    EDWARD WESTON (1886–1958)

    Shell, 1927

    Price Realised USD 17,640
    Closed: 3 Apr 2024
    Price Realised USD 17,640
    Closed: 3 Apr 2024
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    EDWARD WESTON (1886–1958)
    Shell, 1927
    gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1953 by Brett Weston
    initialed and dated in pencil (mount, recto); titled, dated and numbered on affixed photographer's descriptive label in typeset (mount, verso)
    image/sheet: 91⁄4 x 71⁄4 in. (23.4 x 18.4 cm.)
    mount: 15 x 111⁄4 in. (38.1 x 28.5 cm.)
    This work is number one from an edition of six, from the negative 1S.
    Provenance
    Stephen White's Gallery of Photography, Los Angeles;
    acquired from the above by the present owner, 1984.
    Literature
    Ben Maddow, Edward Weston Fifty Years, Aperture, Millerton, New York, 1973, p. 69.
    Beaumont Newhall, Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston, New York Graphic Society/Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1986, pl. 26.
    Cecil Beaton and Gail Buckland, The Magic Image: The Genius of Photography, Pavilion Books Limited, London, 1989, p. 158.
    Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs, Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon, 1992, fig. 544/1927.
    Nancy Newhall, Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition, Aperture, New York, 1993, p. 24.
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