Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations
Edward Weston
'Hand of Amado Galvan'
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Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations
Edward Weston
1886-1958
'Hand of Amado Galvan'
platinum-palladium print, signed, titled, dated, and annotated ‘Tonalá – Mexico’ in pencil on the reverse, framed, a San Francisco Museum of Modern Art loan label on the reverse
image: 9¼ by 7¼ in. (23.4 by 18.4 cm.)
frame: 20¾ by 16¾ in. (52.7 by 42.5 cm)
Executed in 1925.
Sotheby's New York, 17 April 2002, Sale 7777, Lot 128
Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco
Acquired from the above in 2006 by the present owner
Los Angeles Museum, Edward Weston - Brett Weston Photographs, October – November 1927
San Francisco, M. H. de Young Museum, A Showing of Hands, June – July 1932
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Tina Modotti and Edward Weston, September – January 2007
Anita Brenner, Idols Behind Altars (New York, 1929), frontispiece
Mexican Life, June-July issue, 1926, p. 17
Amy Conger, Edward Weston in Mexico, 1923-1926 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1983), pl. 7
Edward Weston: Forms of Passion (London, 1995), p. 92
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Karen Quinn, and Leslie Furth, Edward Weston: Photography & Modernism (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1999), p. 50
Sarah M. Lowe, Tina Modotti & Edward Weston: The Mexican Years (London, 2004) p. 105, pl. 65
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