Photographs from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sold to Benefit Acquisition Funds
Edward Weston
Shell
Lot Closed
April 10, 03:23 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Photographs from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sold to Benefit Acquisition Funds
Edward Weston
1886 - 1958
Shell
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed, titled, dated and stamped by Cole Weston, the photographer's son on the reverse
image: 9⅜ by 7½ in. (23.8 by 19.1 cm.)
Executed 1927, printed posthumously by Cole Weston.
Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Anjli Patel at Anjli.Patel@sothebys.com
Collection of Joan Morgenstern
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Nancy Newhall, ed., Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition (New York: Aperture, 1967), cover, p. 25
Beaumont Newhall, Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston (Boston, 1986), pl. 26
Ben Maddow, Edward Weston: Fifty Years (Millerton, 1973), p. 69
Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of Center for Creative Photography (Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 1992), pl. 544
Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., Karen Quinn, and Leslie Furth, Edward Weston: Photography and Modernism (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1999), cover, pl. 32
The Artificial of the Real: Anton Josef Trčka, Edward Weston, Helmut Newton (New York: Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1999), p. 103
Manfred Heiting, ed., Edward Weston (Köln, 2004), p. 106
Margaret Hooks, Tina Modotti & Edward Weston: The Mexico Years (London, 2004), p. 135
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