Oct 25, 2016 - Sale 2426

Sale 2426 - Lot 172

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)/COLE WESTON (1919-2003)
Rose (Roland de Covarrubias), Mexico. Silver print, the image measuring 8 7/8x6 3/4 inches (22.5x17.1 cm.), the trimmed mount 12 1/2x12 3/8 inches (31.8x31.4 cm.), with the Negative by Edward Weston hand stamp with Cole Weston's signature, in pencil, on mount recto; the original Edward Weston Portfolio label with the print number and edition notation 33/50, in ink, attached to a separate backing board. 1926; printed 1971

Additional Details

Roland was both an amateur photographer and dancer, and was married to cartoonist and archaeologist Miguel Covarrubias.

Armitage, The Art of Edward Weston (E. Weyhe), p. 21.

Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs (Center for Creative Photography), pl. 376/1926.