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EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958) Nude [and wall with tree shadows]. 1945; printed 1980s by Cole Weston. Silver print, the image measuring 7½x9⅝ inches (19.1x24.4 cm.), the mount 13¼x15 inches (33.7x38.1 cm.), with the Negative by Edward Weston stamp with Cole Weston's signature in pencil, and the title, negative notation "N45-CH-1," and negative date also in pencil, on mount verso.
Provenance The Collection of Neil Robert Berzak
Reproduced Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography (CCP/The University of Arizona), cat. no. 1769/1945
This picture of Charis nude was taken at Doug Short's cabin at Big Sur in January of the last year Edward and Charis were married. Historically, it is related to his Prologue to a Sad Spring, which showed Margrethe Mather, dressed, standing on one side, among soft and rounded tree shadows on a barn wall (figure 52/1920). The photograph Weston made in 1920 is considerably more tranquil and reflects more admiration for Japanese design than this one, which is largely dependent on the brilliance of the light and the disjointed and spotty effects it creates.
![EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958) Nude [and wall with tree shadows]. 1945; printed 1980s by Cole Weston.](https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/full//446\822446.jpg)
