Oct 05, 2023 - Sale 2647

Sale 2647 - Lot 42

Unsold
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
BRETT WESTON (1911-1993)
School Desk Detail. Silver print, the image measuring 10 3/8x13 1/2 inches (26.4x34.3 cm.), the mount 15x18 inches (38.1x45.7 cm.), with Weston's signature and date in pencil on mount recto, and his signature, numeric notation, and date also in pencil on mount verso. 1952

Merle Armitage, Brett Weston Photographer (Weyhe Publisher, 1956), pl. 80 (In this early publication the work is titled School Desk Supports.)
Mary Murray, In Pursuit of Form: Sculpture and Photographs by Brett Weston (Monterey Museum of Art, 2002), fig. 36 (catalogue for exhibition, July 27-October 6, 2002)