EDWARD WESTON (1886–1958)

Nude, 1934

Details

EDWARD WESTON (1886–1958)
Nude, 1934
gelatin silver print, mounted on board
signed, dated and numbered '3-50' in pencil (mount, recto); initialed, numbered '185N' and annotated 'this is 4-50 - not 3-50' in pencil (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 3 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (9.5 x 12 cm.)
mount: 9 x 11 in. (22.8 x 27.9 cm.)
This work is number four from an unrealized edition of fifty.

Provenance

Janet Lehr, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1984.

Literature

Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, 1992, fig. 849/1934.

Exhibited

Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, An American Portrait: Photographs from the Collection of Diann and Thomas Mann, April 1–June 12, 1994, no. 108.

Lot Essay

The current print benefits from the edition number on the reverse of the mount, ‘4/50’—while it is well documented that these editions of fifty were never fully realized, these inscriptions aid scholars in dating prints to the desirable time period of the early 1930s.

After eight months we are closer together than ever. Perhaps C. will be remembered as the great love of my life. Already I have achieved certain heights reached with no other love.

—Edward Weston

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