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Description: 'SHELLS'

measurements note
9 1/2 by 7 1/2 in.

mounted, signed, dated, and numbered '4/50' by the photographer in pencil on the mount, titled, dated, and numbered '4S' by him in pencil on the reverse, matted, framed, 1927, no. 4 in a projected edition of 50

PROVENANCE

Vision Gallery, San Francisco

Acquired from the above by Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco

Acquired by the present owners from the above, 1992

NOTE

Weston's '4S' annotation on the reverse of the photograph offered here indicates that it is the fourth negative in Weston's celebrated series of shell studies. Weston's negative log, now in the collection of the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, indicates that Weston made only 4 prints of this image. It is believed that a vintage print of this image has not been offered at auction before.