May 08, 2025 - Sale 2703

Sale 2703 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)
Eroded Rock - Point Lobos. 1929.
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅛x9⅜ inches (18.1x23.8 cm.), the mount 15¾x19 inches (40x48.3 cm.), with Weston's signature, his initials, date, and edition notation 8/50 in pencil on mount recto, and his title, date, and negative notation "25R" in pencil on mount verso.

Edward Weston's log records 9 examples of this image printed between 1929-1936, and 4 examples destroyed.

Provenance
Theodore E. Stebbins; descended in the family

Reproduced
Edward Weston, "Photography Not Pictorial," Camera Craft 37:7 (July 1930), p. 314 [as Eroded Rocks]; Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography (CCP/The University of Arizona), cat. no. 577/1929