Oct 18, 2011 - Sale 2257

Sale 2257 - Lot 85

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
WESTON, EDWARD (1886-1958)/WESTON, COLE (1919-2003)
Johan Hagemeyer. Silver print, 7 1/4x9 1/4 inches (18.4x23.5 cm.), with the "Negative by Edward Weston" hand stamp and Cole's signature, title "Johan," date and negative number, in pencil, on mount verso. 1925; printed 1970s
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From the Levin Gallery, Monterey, California; to the present owner in March 2002.
Edward Weston: Photographs, 160/1925 (Conger adds "[with neurasthenia]" to the title).
Edward Weston: His Life and Photographs, 39.
Conger writes at length about this photograph, describing Hagemeyer's hand as a starfish, and noting the scattered objects at the upper edge of the print as well as an issue of Camera Work at left. She also notes that Weston described this image as "candid."