Feb 13 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2694 -

Sale 2694 - Lot 22

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)
Artichoke Halved. 1930; printed 1970s by Cole Weston.
Silver print, the image measuring 7¼9¼ inches (18.4x23.5 cm.), the mount 13⅛x15 inches (33.3x38.1 cm.), with Cole Weston's signature, his title, date, negative number "28V," and "Negative by Edward Weston Print by" in pencil on mount verso.

Weston wrote in his Daybooks about photographing vegetables on a number of different occasions. In 1930, "A celery heart becomes heroic--a new field is opening to me--on the horizon I see a microscope!" A year later he noted, "Another vulva found in my halved artichoke--and very farfetched the likeness."

Reproduced
Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography (CCP/The University of Arizona), cat. no. 616/1930
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