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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 22, 2025 | Sotheby's | New York | Prints & Photographs Part I | 36 | $****** - ****** | Nude on Sand, Oceano |
photographs
19.7 x 24.1 cm (7.75 x 9.5 in)
gelatin silver print, mounted, framed
signed and dated in pencil on the mount
Margaret W. Weston, Carmel
Galerie Click!, New York
Acquired from the above in 1983 by the present owners
Art Institute of Chicago, Edward Weston, A Centennial Celebration: Photographs from Chicago Collections , December 1986 - February 1987
Conger 927
"Weston Wins $2,500 Award," LIFE , 12 April 1937, vol. 2, no. 15, p. 76
"Picasso of the Camera," Newsweek , 25 February 1946, pp. 92-3
Nancy Newhall, "Edward Weston and the Nude," Modern Photography 16 , June 1952, p. 42
"Edward Weston: A Retrospective Portfolio," Popular Photograph y 37 , February 1955, p. 72
Nancy Newhall, ed., Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition (Aperture, 1967), p. 48
Kathy Kelsey Foley, Edward Weston"s Gifts to His Sister (The Dayton Art Institute, 1978), p. 47
Beaumont Newhall, Supreme Instants: The Photographs of Edward Weston (Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 1986), pl. 43
Kurt Markus, Dune: Edward & Brett Weston (Kalispell, Montana, 2003), p. 55
Alexander Lee Nyerges, Edward Weston: A Photographer"s Love of Life (The Dayton Art Institute, 2004), pl. 33
Manfred Heiting, ed., Edward Weston (Köln, 2004), p. 159
Judith Hochberg, Sarah Lowe, Michael Mattis, and Dody Weston Thompson, Edward Weston: Life Work (Revere, 2004), cover and pl. 63
Amy Conger, Edward Weston: The Form of the Nude (London, 2005), p. 94
Brett Abbott, ed., Edward Weston"s Book of Nudes (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007), pl. 31
Edward Weston
1886 - 1958
Nude on Sand, Oceano
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed and dated in pencil on the mount, framed
image: 7¾ by 9½ in. (19.7 by 24.1 cm.)
frame: 22¼ by 18¼ in. (56.5 by 46.3 cm.)
Executed in 1936.
