Edward Weston 1886-1958

mounted, initialed and dated by the photographer in pencil on the mount, inscribed 'Zohmah--a belated gift--you have been patient!  My love--' and signed 'Edward' by him and numbered 'C44-Mi-1' in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse, matted, 1944

The photographer to Zohmah Charlot

By descent to a private collection

Sotheby's New York, 18 April 1997, Sale 6973, Lot 233

Acquired by Margaret W. Weston from the above

Hannover, Kestner Gesellschaft, Anton Josef Trèka, Edward Weston, Helmut Newton: The Artificial of the Real, March - May, 1998

Monterey Museum of Art, Passion and Precision: Photographs from the Collection of Margaret W. Weston, January - April 2003

Carl Haenlein, Anton Josef Trèka, Edward Weston, Helmut Newton: The Artificial of the Real (Kestner Gesellschaft, 1998, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 91 (this print)

Other prints of this image:

Conger 1744   

Jennifer A. Watts, ed., Edward Weston: A Legacy (The Huntington Library, Los Angeles, 2003, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 229

Manfred Heiting, ed., Edward Weston (Köln, 2004), p. 215

The photograph offered here was originally given by Edward Weston to Zohmah Charlot, the wife of his long-time friend, Jean Charlot.  Weston and Jean Charlot had met in Mexico in the 1920s, and had remained close friends through the following years. Weston made a number of photographs of the Charlots, singly and together, including one of the couple lounging on the rocks at Point Lobos shortly after their marriage in 1939 (Conger 1473).