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EDWARD WESTON (1886–1958)
Red Cabbage Halved, 1930
gelatin silver print, mounted on card
signed, dated and numbered ‘EW 3 / 50’ in pencil (mount, recto); inscribed ‘to Merle – with affectionate greetings / from Edward – 1931’ and ‘To Napolitano / 1934 / Merle Armitage’ in pencil (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 758 x 912 in. (19.4 x 24.1 cm.)
mount: 1414 x 1558 in. (36.2 x 39.7 cm.)
Provenance
Michael Shapiro Photographs, Westport;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, 1992. fig. 613.
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Lot Essay

“Cabbage has renewed my interest, marvelous hearts, like carved ivory, leaves with veins like flame, with forms curved like the most exquisite shell…in the cabbage I sense the entire secret of life’s force.”
- Edward Weston as quoted in The Daybooks of Edward Weston, Vol. II, California, p. 213.

Edward Weston first began photographing cabbages in the summer of 1927 and would continue to do so for nearly a decade, experimenting with different compositions and viewpoints. Famously attuned to the beauty of natural forms, Weston was intrigued by the infinite patterns and textures found in cabbages depending on how they are cut or arranged. For this particular subject, Weston described slicing off a thin layer between images, exposing a new surface with every slice.

The present lot is the first vintage print of this image to come to auction in over fifteen years.

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