Feb 25, 2020 - Sale 2531

Sale 2531 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 2,340
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)
Portrait of Eleanora (Elinore) Stone. Silver contact print, the image measuring 4 1/2x3 5/8 inches (11.4x9.1 cm.), the mount 11x9 inches (28x22.9 cm.), with Weston's signature, title "Eleanora," and date, in pencil, on mount recto. 1933
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Additional Details

Weston apparently gifted this print to his paramour Lydia Parker; by descent to the Present Owner.

A print of this image is in the collection of University of California at Santa Cruz. Stone was the first wife of Weston's oldest son, Brett. In anticipation of a costume party Stone shaved her head to look like Harald Kreutzberg, the well-known dancer.