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Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)/COLE WESTON (1919-2003) Nude (Charis, Santa Monica). Silver print, the image measuring 9⅜x7½ inches (23.8x19.1 cm.), the mount 16x14 inches (40.6x35.6 cm.), with the Negative by Edward Weston stamp with Cole Weston's signature in pencil, and the title and negative date also in pencil in an unknown hand, on mount verso. 1936; printed 1970s
Provenance: The Personal Collection of Cole Weston; to the Collection of Dr. James and Debra Pearl
Charis described how this picture was made: "I sat in the bedroom doorway (to the sunroof) with the room in a shadow behind me. Even then the light was almost overpoweringly bright. When I ducked my head to avoid looking into it, Edward said "just keep it that way." He was never happy with the shadow on my right arm, and I was never happy with the crooked hair part and bobby pins. But when I see the picture unexpectedly, I remember most vividly Edward examining the print with a magnifying glass to decide if the few visible pubic hairs would prevent him from shipping it through the mails."
Reproduced: Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography (CCP/The University of Arizona), cat. no. 968/1936
