May 22, 2007 - Sale 2115

Sale 2115 - Lot 387

Price Realized: $ 28,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000
WESTON, BRETT (1911-1993)
Portfolio entitled "Fifteen Photographs." Silver prints, 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), and the reverse, each with Weston's signature and date, in pencil, on mount verso. Folio, black stamped cloth; contents loose as issued. one of 50 copies. , 1961

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"Fifteen Photographs" is a masterful example of the contrast and abstraction that dominates Weston's work. It reflects a recognizable style influenced by his father, Edward, but remaining strongly his own.
"Garapata Beach," 1954 "Cracked Paint, Garapata," 1952 "Broken Glass, California," 1955 "Window Display," 1954 "Rock Form, Point Lobos," 1960 "Village, Spain," 1960 "Ice Forms, California," 1956 "Tidal Pool, California," 1961 "Lake and Rocks, Scotland," 1960 "Texas Desert," 1946 "Tree and Rock Wall, Glen Canyon," 1959 "Dune, Oceano," 1934 "Storefront, San Francisco," 1960 "Manufacturer's Trust Bank, New York," 1956 "Crypt, New Orleans," 1956.