Oct 04, 2012 - Sale 2288

Sale 2288 - Lot 52

Price Realized: $ 7,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
WESTON, EDWARD (1886-1958)/WESTON, COLE (1919-2003)
"Shell [Nautilus]." Silver print, 9 1/4x7 1/4 inches (23.5x18.4 cm.), mounted to a 15x13 1/4-inch (38.1x33.7 cm.) board, with the Negative by Edward Weston hand stamp and Cole's signature, and the title and date, in pencil, on mount verso. 1927; printed 1980s
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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."