Oct 22, 2009 - Sale 2191

Sale 2191 - Lot 97

Price Realized: $ 5,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
WESTON, EDWARD (1886-1958)/WESTON, COLE (1919-2003)
"Nude [Bertha, Glendale]." Silver print, 7x8 inches (17.8x20.3 cm.), with the "Negative by Edward Weston/Print by Cole Weston" notation and the title, date and "62N," in pencil, on mount verso. 1927; printed 1970s

Additional Details

Weston historian Amy Conger writes, "As early as March, Edward had noticed a resemblance betweem the curves of Bertha's thighs, calves and shins and the curves of the 'great sea shells.' "
Edward Weston: Photographs, 537/1927.
Maddow, 94.
Edward Weston: The Daybooks Volume II: California, 2.