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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 7, 2019 | Christie's | London | Masterpieces of Design and Photography | 102 | $****** - ****** | Shell (Nautilus) |
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24.1 x 19 cm (9.49 x 7.48 in)
gelatin silver print, mounted on card
signed, dedicated and dated ‘Lester and Jean Roy – with many happy memories from Edward – Dec. 1928’ in pencil (mount, verso)
A gift from the artist to Jean Roy and Lester Carter in December 1928.
Thence by descent to the present owners.
Los Angeles, Los Angeles Museum, Edward Weston/ Brett Weston, 1927.
Stuttgart, Städtische Ausstellungshallen, Internationale Ausstellung des Deutschen Werkbunds Film und Foto (Fifo), 1929 (another print exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Vienna, Österreichisches Museum.
New York, Delphic Studios, Edward Weston, 1930 (another print exhibited).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Edward Weston, 1946 (another print exhibited; illustrated, p. 16).
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, The World of Edward Weston, 1956 – 1957 (another print exhibited).
Tuscon, University of Arizona, Center for Creative Photography, Supreme Instants, 1986, pl. 26 (another print exhibited; illustrated, unpaged).
Los Angeles, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Edward Weston: Photography and Modernism, 1999 – 2002, p. 222, pl. 32 (illustrated on the front cover, unpaged; titled Chambered Nautilus). This exhibition later travelled to Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art; Boston, The Museum of Fine Arts and Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection.
Monterey, Monterey Museum of Art, Edward Weston: American Photographer, 2011 (another print exhibited).
B. Maddow, Edward Weston Fifty Years, New York 1973 (illustrated, p. 69).
C. Beaton and G. Buckland, The Magic Image: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day, London 1975 (illustrated, p. 158).
U. Eskildsen and J.-C. Horak, Film und Foto, der Zwanziger Jahre, Stuttgart 1979, no. 57 (illustrated, p. 95).
A. Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs, Center for Creative Photography, Arizona 1992, fig. 544/1927 (illustrated).
N. Newhall, Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition, New York 1993 (illustrated, p. 25).
G. Mora (ed.), Edward Weston: Forms of Passion, Passion of Forms, New York 1995, p. 354 (illustrated, p. 151; titled Chambered Nautilus).
B. G. Warren, 'Edward Weston and His German Connections, in Object:Photo. Modern Photographs: The Thomas Walther Collection 1909 – 1949. An Online Project of The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2014, fig. 3 (illustrated, p. 3).
Other prints of this image are in the collections of:
Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon;
George Eastman Museum, Rochester;
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles;
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;
The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
