Edward Weston (1886-1958)

Purple Cabbage, 1/2 and 2/4s, 1936

Details

Edward Weston (1886-1958)
Purple Cabbage, 1/2 and 2/4s, 1936
gelatin silver print
signed, dated, and numbered '5-40' in pencil (mount, recto); titled and numbered '63V' in pencil (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 7 5/8 x 9 5/8 in. (19.3 x 24.5 cm.)
mount: 14 7/8 x 15 3/8 in. (37.8 x 39.1 cm.)

Provenance

The artist;
Gifted to Mrs. Maxfield Parrish.

Literature

Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs, Center for Creative Photography, 1992, fig. 920/1936.

Lot Essay

For the first time in months, I am excited to work, and by 'still-life,' - though I do not like the designation still-life, a misnomer for my most living artichokes, peppers, onions, cabbage! Cabbage has renewed my interest, marvelous hearts, like carved ivory, leaves with veins like flame, with forms carved like the most exquisite shell.
Edward Weston

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