?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958) Egg Slicer. 1930; printed circa 1953-54 by Brett Weston. Silver contact print, the image measuring 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), with the Estate of Edward Weston stamp with the number "78" in pencil on print verso; accompanied by a paper folder with The Photographs of Edward Weston/Arizona Board of Regents label and the number "25 M #78" in pencil.
Provenance A California Collection
Five different images of the egg slicer have been located. He included one in the Delphic exhibition in 1930. Another was illustrated in a review in Theatre Arts Monthly, which was probably the same used in his show at De Young in San Francisco that fall - and it sold in both cases.
Weston reacted: "I suppose it is purchased because it's "modern." I am so sick of the word! My squash is just as "modern." One's spirit of approach may be contemporary, but subject matter is immaterial, and fine art of any period is "modern," and much that is labeled "modern" is very academic, decked out with a few frills."
Reproduced Amy Conger, (CCP/The University of Arizona), cat no. 596/1930
