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EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)/COLE WESTON (1919-2003) Edward Weston Portfolio. Complete portfolio with 10 of Weston's extraordinary photographs, comprised from sets 38 (7 prints), 37 (2 prints), and 33 (one print). The prints including Pepper No. 30, Two Shells, and Rose, Mexico. Silver prints (9) and one dye transfer print, one image measuring 3 1/2x4 1/2 inches, but most approximately 9 1/2x7 1/2 inches (8.9x11.4 and 24.1x19.1 cm.), and the reverse, all but the dye transfer print with the Negative by Edward Weston hand stamp and Cole's signature, and each with the title, date, and negative number, in pencil, as well as the portfolio label with the print and set number, on mount verso. Folio-sized black boards folder; the metallic slipcase with a photo-pictorial reproduction; the colophon with the edition notation 38/50; contents loose as issued. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 50. Witkin-Berley, 1925-48; printed 1971
Plaster Works, Los Angeles, 1925 * Casa de Vecindad, D.F., 1926 * Rose, Mexico, 1926 * Two Shells, 1927 * Flaming Cypress Root, Point Lobos, 1929 * Pepper No. 30, 1930 * Nude, 1934 *Grass and Sea, Big Sur, 1937 * North Wall, Point Lobos, 1946 * Blue Dune, Oceano, 1948 (the dye transfer print, with a hand stamp stating that the print was made from a color transparency and Cole's signature).
