Lot 18: EDWARD WESTON

Description

1886-1958
TWO  SHELLS
mounted  to  large  buff-colored  card,  signed  and  dated  in  pencil  on  the  mount,  1927
9  3/8    by  6  7/8    in.  (23.8  by  17.3  cm.)

Literature

Conger, p. 84, figure F.3

Frances D. McMullen, 'Lowly Things That Yield Strange Stark Beauty,' New York Times Magazine, 16 November 1930, p. 7

Ben Maddow, Edward Weston: Fifty Years (Aperture, 1973), p. 149

Barbara Haskell, The American Century: Art & Culture, 1900-1950 (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1999), fig. 387, p. 201

Brett Abbott, In Focus: Edward Weston (J. Paul Getty, Museum, 2005), front wrapper and pl. 25

Provenance

Likely from the collection of Rockwell Kent

Witkin Gallery, New York

Collection of James R. Rochlis, acquired from the above, 1969

Sotheby's New York, 17 October 2003, Sale 7925, Lot 145