WESTON EDWARD (1886 1958) Cypress Point Lobos

Sale 2132 - Lot 379

Price Realized: $ 12,000

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Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000

WESTON, EDWARD (1886-1958)
"Cypress, Point Lobos." Silver print, 9 1/2x7 1/2 inches (24.1x19 cm.), with Weston's initials and numeric notation, "4/50," in pencil on mount recto and his title, the date, numeric notations and Weston's name, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on mount verso. 1930

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In the 1950s, this image was selected as a project print and exhibited at Delphic Studios in 1932, and at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1946.
Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, unpaginated.
According to Amy Conger, "On December 18, Weston printed a group of negatives he had taken of cypresses that ''swirl upwards like fire,-a dozen of them with the same movement.'' Weston often contradicted Arthur Wesley Dow''s [an American artist and influential arts educator] principals of composition by making things happen on the edges-here contours and lines cross or just end as they touch the frame; he used quasi-geometric shapes, in this case, two triangles and a quarter circle, to occupy his corners. He did not increase depth by including sky or a horizon line but seemed to be concentrating on the absolutely flat surface of the paper and the purest forms he could isolate in nature-just as some of his colleagues at the Bauhaus were doing in other media. [In this particular image] Weston changed his lens or moved his camera about a foot closer and, in either case, about four inches to the right. He did not, however, alter the basic organization of the composition, although there are fewer distracting elements and the forms are more heroic."