Feb 28, 2012 - Sale 2270

Sale 2270 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 4,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
WESTON, EDWARD (1886-1958)/WESTON, COLE (1919-2003)
"Artichoke Halved." Silver print, 7 1/2x9 1/4 inches (19.1x23.5 cm.), with the "Negative by Edward Weston" hand stamp and Cole's signature and the title, date, and negative number, in pencil, on mount verso. 1930; printed 1970s

Additional Details

From the Collection of Anselm and Marjorie Talalay.
Edward Weston: Photographs, 616/1930.
Art of Edward Weston, 26.
Supreme Instants, 139.
According to Amy Conger, Weston wrote about this seductive image, "Another vulva found in my halved artichoke--and very farfetched the likeness."