Photographs Part II

Photographs Part II

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Edward Weston

'Egg Slicer'

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October 23, 07:15 PM GMT

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15,000 - 25,000 USD

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12,000 USD

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Edward Weston

1886 - 1958

'Egg Slicer'


gelatin silver print, signed, titled, dated and annotated 'Top' in pencil on the reverse

image: 6¾ by 9¼ in. (17.1 by 23.5 cm.)

Executed in 1930.

The photographer to J. Leslie Meek, circa 1930-31

By descent through family to the present owner

Nancy Newhall ed., The Daybooks of Edward Weston: Volume II California (New York, 1966), pl. 27

Exh. cat., The Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, The Artificial of the Real, March - May 1989, p. 106

Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of Center for Creative Photography (Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 1992), fig. 595

Theodore Stebbins, Edward Weston: Photography and Modernism (Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1999), pl. 2

Jennifer A. Watts ed., Edward Weston: A Legac, (London, 2003), pg. 12, fig. 4