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EDWARD WESTON (1886–1958)
Nude on Sand, Oceano, 1936
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed later by Cole Weston
signed, titled, dated and numbered '237N' in pencil by Cole Weston within 'Negative by Edward Weston' stamp (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 714 x 912 in. (18.4 x 24.1 cm.)
mount: 1314 x 15 in. (33.7 x 38.1 cm.)
Provenance
Christie's, London, November 26, 2010, lot 119;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Edward Weston, "Light vs. Lighting", Camera Craft, vol. 46, no. 5, May 1939, p. 204.
Beaumont Newhall, "Edward Weston in Retrospect", Popular Photography, vol. 18, March 1946, pp. 42-43.
Merle Armitage (ed.), Fifty Photographs: Edward Weston, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1947, pl. 19.
Charis Wilson, Edward Weston: Nudes, Aperture, New York, 1977, p. 85.
Ben Maddow, Edward Weston: His Life and Photographs, Aperture, New York, 1979, p. 171.
Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, 1992, fig. 928/1936.
Gilles Mora (ed.), Edward Weston: Forms of Passion, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1995, p. 216.
Exhibition catalogue, Edward Weston: Photography and Modernism, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1999, pl. 72.
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