Photographs from the Private Collection of Margaret W. Weston

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Lot 43
  • 43

Edward Weston 1886-1958

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Edward Weston
  • NUDE (CHARIS)
mounted, signed, dated, and numbered '1-50' by the photographer in pencil on the mount, numbered '190N' by him in pencil on the reverse, matted, 1934, no. 1 in a projected edition of 50

Provenance

Private Collection

Acquired by Weston Gallery, Carmel, from the above, 1981

Private Collection, acquired from the above

Christie's New York, 6 October 1998, Sale 8982, Lot 202

Acquired by Margaret W. Weston from the above

Exhibited

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

Literature

Other prints of this image: 

Conger 852

Amy Conger, Edward Weston: The Form of the Nude (London, 2005), p. 75

Catalogue Note

In his Negative Log, now in the collection of the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Weston notes that he made only two prints of this photograph.  Amy Conger lists two prints of this image in the Center's collection, both of them printed by Cole Weston, the photographer's son.  Additionally, she locates two other prints: at the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of California at Santa Cruz (a Project Print).