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Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958) Eroded Rock No. 50, Point Lobos. 1930. Silver print, the image measuring 7½x9⅛ inches (19.1x23.2 cm.), the mount 15x15½ inches (38.1x39.4 cm.), with Weston's signature, his initials, date, and edition notation 2/50 in pencil on mount recto, and his title, date, and negative notation "50R" in pencil on mount verso.
Provenance Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles; to the Collection of Neil Robert Berzak
Weston noted having made twenty-two prints in his log. He summarized this feeling about this photograph when he wrote Nancy Newhall in 1945 stating that he would not permit its omission from his retrospective at the Museum of Art: it is "one of my earliest and finest rocks."
Reproduced Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography (CCP/The University of Arizona), cat. no. 633/1930
