Edward Weston
'Pepper'
Live auction begins on:
October 22, 04:00 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Bid
35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Edward Weston
1886 - 1958
'Pepper'
gelatin silver print, signed, titled, dated and annotated 'Top' and with reproduction notations in pencil on the reverse
image: 9¼ by 7⅜ in. (23.5 by 18.7 cm.)
Executed in 1930.
The photographer to J. Leslie Meek, 1930
By descent through family to the present owner
Conger 606
Jose Rodriguez, "The Art of Edward Weston," California Arts & Architecture, November 1930, vol. XXXIX, no. 5, p. 37 (this print)
Nancy Newhall, ed., Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition (New York, 1965), p. 33
Nancy Newhall, ed., The Daybooks of Edward Weston: Volume II California (New York, 1966), cover and pl. 5
Amy Conger, Edward Weston: The Form of the Nude (New York, 1981), p. 69
Beaumont Newhall, Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston (Boston, 1986), pl. 150
The Artificial of the Real (Hanover: The Kestner Gesellschaft, 1989), p. 105
Exh. cat., Mexico City, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Edward Weston: La Mirada de la Ruptura, September - November 1994, pl. 47
Theodore Stebbins, Edward Weston: Photography and Modernism (Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1999), pl. 38
Paulette Weston, ed., Laughing Eyes: A Book of Letters Between Edward and Cole Weston 1923-1946 (California, 2000), p. 36
Sarah M. Lowe and Dody Weston Thompson, Edward Weston: Life Work (Revere, 2003), pl. 43
Manfred Heiting, ed., Edward Weston: 1886-1958 (Arizona, 2004), unpaginated
Mark Greenberg, ed., Edward Weston’s Book of Nudes (Los Angeles, 2007), pl. 12
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