Apr 18, 2013 - Sale 2311

Sale 2311 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 50,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 35,000 - $ 45,000
WESTON, EDWARD (1886-1958)
Charis (nude). Silver print, 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), with Weston's signature and date, in pencil, on mount recto. 1935
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Acquired from Cole Weston by the present owner.
Amy Conger, photo-historian and Weston expert, has characterized this print as "unusually enigmatic [...] and avant-garde for Weston, who chose this study as a Print-of-the-Month-Club selection."

This image was featured in Weston's Museum of Modern Art exhibition in New York, in 1975. Other prints are in the collections of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Nelson-Adkins Museum, Kansas City; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

The picture is reproduced in Edward Weston: Photographs, 888/1935.

Edward Weston: One Hundred Photographs from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Hallmark Photographic Collection, 32.

Edward Weston: The Form of the Nude, 87.

Edward Weston: Life Work, 208.

In addition, Nancy Newhall used the image in the maquette she assembled of her book on Weston's nude studies.