Lot ID:
17143
Edward
Weston:
Nude
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Description
Title:
Nude
Style: Modern (ca. 1880-1945)
Period: 1930s
Medium: Photographs, Silver print, gelatin silver print
Year: 1936
Size: height - 9.5 in, width - 7.5 in, depth - 0 in
Markings: signed, stamped, Signed and stamped on verso by Cole Weston
Estimate: from $6,000 to $8,000
Seller's Description:
Faces_Figures
Edward Weston, Nude, 1936. Gelatin silver print, mounted on board, print: 9.5 x 7.5 inches, 24.13 x 19.05 cm; mount: 11 x 9 inches, 27.94 x 22.86 cm. Printed, signed, and stamped by Cole Weston.
Charis Wilson, Edward Weston's then-girlfriend and future wife, sits upon a blanket in a doorway. Wilson's head is bowed against her leg, obscuring her face. Her body and the shadows created between her legs and arms become a formal study of triangles and lines defined by light and gesture. Although not abstract, the shape of her body is graphic; even the crooked part in her pinned-back hair assumes a formal quality over and above casual detail. Wilson is slightly off-center, with the diagonal extension of her legs and feet pointing both forward and back, balancing her within the frame.[getty]
"To clearly express my feeling for life with photographic beauty, present objectively the texture, rhythm, form in nature, without subterfuge or evasion in technique or spirit, to record the quintessence of the object or element before my lens, rather than an interpretation, a superficial phase, or passing mood--this is my way in photography. It is not an easy way."
--Edward Weston
In the spring of 1906, the twenty-year old Weston visited Tropico (now Glendale), California to see his sister for two months and decided to establish himself in the state, where he remained for more than fifty years. After two brief apprenticeships, Weston began his own photographic business, The Little Studio, in Tropico in 1911.
In 1922 on a visit East, Weston met Alfred Stieglitz and toured New York museums, after which Weston wrote that "I was ripe to change, was changing, yes changed when I went to New York." The following year Weston went to Mexico, accompanied by Tina Modotti. In 1926 he returned to Glendale and later settled in Carmel. In 1937 Weston became the first photographer to receive the Guggenheim Foundation artist's fellowship. Along with Imogen Cunningham and Ansel Adams, Weston was a founding member of Group f/64, which advocated unmanipulated, sharp-focus photography.[getty]
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- Condition Report
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The seller has recorded the following condition for this lot:
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Description:
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Chips
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Location:
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Upper right, Other location
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Area:
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Image
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Degree:
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Minor
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Notes:
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two miniscule losses along right edge of the photograph, and two even more miniscule losses along edges of lower left corner.
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Description:
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Indentations / Ding
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Location:
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Upper right
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Area:
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Image
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Degree:
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Minor
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Notes:
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about 5 tiny impressions in the upper right quandrant of the photograph. The print was used for reproduction and shows signs of handling on the mount
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Description:
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Staining
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Location:
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Other location
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Area:
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Margin
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Degree:
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Minor
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Notes:
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Minor stains on mount, not on the photograph. Printer's inscription on recto of mount in red pencil along bottom of mount.
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Definition Key
Condition Area
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Margin Area
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Edge, border, or perimeter areas
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Image Area
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Central image, focal point of the item/image.
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Degree
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Minor
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Existing condition generally does not involve risk of loss
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Moderate
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Noticeable, increasing in severity and/or size; not serious, but should be monitored or corrected by a conservator
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Distinct, recognizable damage;
stability of the work is
questionable; risk is a factor;
requires the attention of a
conservator
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Advanced and severe damage;
work is insecure and at great risk
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- History & Provenance
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Provenance:
private collection
Publications:
Weston, Edward, 1886-1958. Edward Weston’s book of nudes / based on the original unpublished book compiled by Nancy Newhall and Edward Weston ; edited by Brett Abbott. Los Angeles : The J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, c2007.
Abbott, Brett, 1978-. Edward Weston : photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum / Brett Abbott. Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, c2005.
Weston, Edward, 1886-1958. Edward Weston : a legacy / [Text by] Susan Danly, Jonathan Spaulding, Jessica Todd Smith ; edited and with an introduction by Jennifer A. Watts. London : Merrell, 2003.
Weston, Edward, 1886-1958. Edward Weston : life work : photographs from the collection of Judith G. Hochberg and Michael P. Mattis / preface by Judith G. Hochberg and Michael P. Mattis ; essays by Sarah M. Lowe ; a memoir and summation by Dody Weston Thompson. Revere, Pa. : Lodima Press, c2003.
Weston, Edward, 1886-1958. Edward Weston, the last years in Carmel / [curated by] David Travis. Chicago : Art Institute ; New York : distributed by D.A.P., c2001.
Stebbins, Theodore E. Edward Weston : photography and modernism / by Theodore E. Stebins, Jr. and Karen Quinn and Leslie Furth. Boston : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in association with Bulfinch Press, c1999.
Weston, Edward, 1886-1958. Edward Weston, 1886-1958 / essay by Terence Pitts ; a personal portrait by Ansel Adams ; edited by Manfred Heiting. Köln ; New York : Taschen, c1999.
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