50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs
50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs
Edward Weston
'Cabbage - leaf'
Lot Closed
April 21, 02:17 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 90,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Edward Weston
1886 - 1958
'Cabbage - leaf'
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed, dated, and editioned '2-50' in pencil on the mount, titled, numbered '39V,' and dated in pencil and with a 'Photographic Arts Society, San Diego' exhibition label on the reverse, framed, 1931, no. 2 in a projected edition of 50
image: 7 ½ by 9 ½ in. (19.1 by 24.1 cm.)
frame: 17 ¾ by 19 in. (45.1 by 48.3 cm.)
By descent through family to the present owners
Edward Weston: Photographer (Millerton: Aperture, 1965), p. 30
Nancy Newhall, ed., Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition (Millerton: Aperture, 1967), p. 32
Ben Maddow, Edward Weston: Fifty Years (Millerton: Aperture, 1973), p. 148
Kathy Kelsey Foley, Edward Weston's Gifts to His Sister (The Dayton Art Institute, 1978), p. 45
Beaumont Newhall, Supreme Instants: The Photographs of Edward Weston (Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 1986), cat. 135, pl. 29
Jennifer A. Watts, ed., Edward Weston: A Legacy (London and San Marino: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2003), p. 112
Manfred Heiting, ed., Edward Weston: 1886-1958 (Köln, 2004), p. 112
Lynne Warren, ed., Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography (New York and London, 2005), cover