Edward Weston
Shells
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October 22, 04:00 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Bid
28,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Edward Weston
1886 - 1958
Shells
gelatin silver print, mounted, initialed and dated in pencil on the mount, framed
image: 9⅛ by 6¼ in. (23.2 by 15.9 cm.)
frame: 15¼ by 12⅝ in. (38.7 by 32.1 cm.)
Executed in 1927, probably printed in the 1940s.
The photographer to ceramicist Amy L. Hart
Conger 550
Edward Weston, Art of Edward Weston (New York, 1932), p. 11
Ben Maddow, Edward Weston: His Life and Photographs (Millerton, 1973), p. 69
Jennifer A. Watts, ed., Edward Weston, A Legacy (San Marino: The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, 2003), p. 94
Brett Abbott, ed., Edward Weston's Book of Nudes (The J. Paul Getty Museum and Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, 2007), pl. 7
Paul Martineau, Still Life in Photography (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010), pl. 35
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