Oct 18, 2011 - Sale 2257

Sale 2257 - Lot 82

Price Realized: $ 9,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
WESTON, EDWARD (1886-1958)/WESTON, BRETT (1911-1993)
"Cypress and Stone Crop, Point Lobos." Silver print, 9 1/2x7 1/2 inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), with Edward's initials and date, in pencil, on mount recto. 1946; printed circa 1952

Additional Details

From Edward Weston; to the collection of John Yang in 1952; by descent to the present owner.
Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston, 110; Fifty Photographs: Edward Weston, 46; Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition, 97; Edward Weston: Photographs, 1806/1946.
Conger writes about this image: "Weston was also attracted to the random elements, like the delicate branches and twigs resembling strokes of zen calligraphy, showing that this same Nature was never static, but, in fact, could be depended upon to be mysterious and unpredictable."