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Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958) Kelp. Silver print, the image measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), the mount 15 inches (38.1 cm.) square, with Weston's signature and date and his initials and edition notation 9/50 in pencil in the artist's hand on mount recto, and his title and negative notation "3K" in pencil on mount verso. 1930
Provenance: The Personal Collection of Cole Weston; to the Collection of Dr. James and Debra Pearl
On Saturday, March 8, 1930, Weston wrote: "Yesterday I made photographic history: for I have every reason and belief that the two negatives of kelp done in the morning will someday be sought as examples of my finest expression and understanding."
Reproduced: Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography (CCP/The University of Arizona), cat. no. 584/1930
