Dec 08, 2009 - Sale 2199

Sale 2199 - Lot 260

Price Realized: $ 6,240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
WESTON, EDWARD (1886-1958)/WESTON, COLE (1919-2003)
"Shell [Nautilus]." Silver print, 9 1/4x7 1/4 inches (23.5x18.4 cm.), with the "Negative by Edward Weston/Print by Cole Weston" notation and the title, date and negative number, in pencil, in Cole's hand, on mount verso. 1927; printed 1970s

Additional Details

The Art of Edward Weston, 39.
Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition, 25.
Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston, 26.
Edward Weston: Photographs, 544/1927.
According to Amy Conger, Tina Modotti was jarred by this image, physically and mentally, and wrote, "There is something so pure and at the same time so perverse about them. They contain both the innocence of natural things and the morbidity of a sophisticated, distorted mind. They make me think of lilies and embryos. They are mystical and erotic."