Edward Weston - Photographs New York Thursday, October 4, 2018 | Phillips

Photographs

New York Auction 4 October 2018

  • Provenance

    Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, 1976

  • Literature

    Newhall, Supreme Instants: the Photography of Edward Weston, cover, pl. 68
    Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, fig. 939
    Markus, Dune: Edward & Brett Weston, p. 91
    Stebbins, Edward Weston: Photography and Modernism, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, pl. 81

  • Catalogue Essay

    “I have been doing good work… One weekend Willard [Van Dyke] came down… we took his car… and drove to Oceano. There, I made several dune negatives that mark a new epoch in my work. I must go back there, - the material made for me!” Edward Weston

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Edward Weston

Dunes at Oceano, California

1936
Gelatin silver print.
7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (19.1 x 24.1 cm)
Signed and dated in pencil on the mount; titled in pencil on the reverse of the mount.

Estimate
$50,000 - 70,000 

Sold for $93,750

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New York Auction 4 October 2018