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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 19, 2017 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Boundless: Contemporary Art | 48 | $****** - ****** | Excellent | PEPPER (NO. 30) |
photographs
23.2 x 18.7 cm (9.13 x 7.36 in)
gelatin silver print
stamped with the artist's signature, signed by Cole Weston, titled, dated 1930 and numbered 30P on the reverse of the mount
Cole Weston, Monterey, 1980
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Merle Armitage, Art of Edward Weston, Aperture, New York, 1932, p. 5↵Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1992, pl. 606↵Nancy Newhall, The Flame of Recognition: Edward Weston, Aperture, New York, 1997, p. 35↵Nancy Newhall, The Daybooks of Edward Weston, Volume II, California, Aperture, New York, 1973, cover and pl. 5↵Beaumont Newhall, Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston, Bulfinch, New York, 1986, cat. no. 150↵On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography, Bulfinch, New York, 1989, pl. 259↵Gilles Mora, Edward Weston: Forms of Passion, H. N. Abrams, New York, 1995, p. 171↵Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Edward Weston: Photography and Modernism, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1999, frontispiece and pl. 38↵Keith Davis, An American Century of Photograph, H. N. Abrams, New York, 1999. pl. 207↵Sarah M. Lowe, Dody Weston Thompson, et al., Edward Weston: Life Work; Photographs from the Collection of Judith G. Hochberg and Michael P. Mattis, Lodima, Revere, 2003, pl. 43↵Mark Haworth-Booth, The Folio Society Book of the 100 Greatest Photographs, Folio Society, London, 2006, p. 115↵Photographie des 20. Jahrhunderts, Cologne, 2016, p. 131
Executed in 1930, printed later by Cole Weston. ↵stamped with the artist's signature, signed by Cole Weston, titled, dated 1930 and numbered 30P on the reverse of the mount ↵gelatin silver print↵Image: 23.2 by 18.7 cm, 9 1/8 by 7 3/8 in. ↵Mount: 38.1 by 33.5 cm, 15 by 13 1/8 in.
