Name: EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)
Brand: Onion, Halved, 1930
Price: 48000.00 USD
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EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)
Onion, Halved, 1930

gelatin silver print, mounted on board
signed, dated and numbered '8/50' in pencil (mount, recto); titled in pencil and with typed credit, title, date and 'Gift of Margery Mann' on label (mount, verso)
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image/sheet: 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (19 x 24.1 cm.)
‌mount: 12 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (31.8 x 39.4 cm.)

The collection of photographer Margery Mann (1919–1977);
donated to the San Francisco Museum of Art, c. 1977;
from the above to Lunn Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1979;
acquired from the above by a private collection, New York, 1980;
Michael Shapiro Photographs, Westport;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2014.

Richard W. Westwood, Beauty and the Vegetable as Caught by the Searching Lens of Edward Weston's Camera, Nature 19, March, 1932 issue, pp. 154-56.
Coronet magazine, November, 1936 issue, p. 27.
Kathy Kelsey Foley, Edward Weston’s Gifts to His Sister, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, 1978, p. 45.
Beaumont Newhall, Edward Weston: Supreme Instants, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1986, pl. 31.
Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, 1992, fig. 623/1930.
Gilles Mora (ed.), Edward Weston: Forms of Passion, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1995, p.175.

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Weston logged eight prints from this negative, one of which was destroyed. Other prints of this image are in museum collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (numbered 1/50); the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson (two prints made by his son, Brett Weston); Art Institute of Chicago (print by Brett Weston); and Santa Cruz Museum (project print, made by Brett Weston).

This print was previously owned by the photographer and historian, Margery Mann, who is most known for her 1976 monogram on Imogen Cunningham.