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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 22, 2022 | Christie's | New York | Photographs | 30 | $****** - ****** | Anita [nude back], 51N |
photographs
21 x 18.1 cm (8.25 x 7.13 in)
gelatin silver print
annotated 'EW', and credited, titled, dated and numbered 'EW #21', in pencil (verso)
Gifted by the artist to scholar and writer Anita Brenner (1905-1974), Mexico, 1925;
by descent to daughter Susannah Brenner Glusker, Mexico;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Edward Weston, ‘From My Day Book', Creative Art: A Magazine of Fine & Applied Art, August 1928.
H.L. Dungan, ‘Art and Artists-Music and Musicians: ...Just as a man lost in a forest...', Oakland Tribune , July 30, 1933.
Nancy Newhall, The Photographs of Edward Weston , The Musuem of Modern Art, New York, 1946, p. 15.
'Edward Weston: A Retrospective Portfolio', Popular Photography , February 1955. p. 69.
Robert L. Gale, Great Photography Series 1: Studies of the Human Form by Two Masters: John Rawlings and Edward Weston , Maco Magazine Corporation, New York, 1957, p. 85.
Minor White, ‘On the Strength of a Mirage', Art in America , Spring 1958, pp. 52-55.
Edward Weston, The Flame of Recognition , Aperture, New York, 1971, p. 19.
Edward Weston, Edward Weston: Fifty Years , Aperture, New York, 1973, p. 66.
Ben Maddow, Edward Weston: His Life , Aperture, New York, 1973, p. 141.
Edward Weston, The Daybooks of Edward Weston , Aperture, New York, 1973, pl. 21.
Edward Weston, Edward Weston: Nudes , Aperture, New York, 1977, p. 34.
Edward Weston, Weston's Westons: Portraits and Nudes , Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1989, pl. 13.
Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography , The University of Arizona, Tucson, 1992, n.p., no. 186.
Edward Weston, The Flame of Recognition , Aperture, New York, 1993, p. 19.
Exhibition Catalogue, Edward Weston: la Mirada de la Ruptura , Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico, 1994, p. 46.
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. et al., Edward Weston: Photography and Modernism , Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1999, pl. 19.
Edward Weston, Edward Weston: Life Work , Lodima Press, Revere, Pa., 2003, pl. 48.
Amy Conger, Edward Weston: The Form of Nude , Phaidon, New York, 2005, fig. 10, p. 18.
Edward Weston, Edward Weston's Book of Nudes , The J. Paul Getty Musuem, Los Angeles, 2007, pl. 3.
Edward Weston, Edward Weston: 125 Photographs , Ammo Books, California, 2012, p. 76.
Edward Weston, Edward Weston 1886-1958 , Taschen, Cologne, 2017, p. 89.
EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)
Anita [nude back], 51N , 1925
gelatin silver print
annotated 'EW', and credited, titled, dated and numbered 'EW #21', in pencil (verso)
image/sheet: 8 1/4 x 7 1/8 in. (20.9 x 18 cm.)
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