WESTON EDWARD (1886 1958)WESTON COLE (1919 2003) Shell [and

Sale 2166 - Lot 335

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WESTON, EDWARD (1886-1958)/WESTON, COLE (1919-2003)
"Shell [and Rock Arrangement]." Silver print, 7 1/2x9 1/4 inches (19.1x23.5 cm.), with the "Edward Weston/Cole Weston" hand stamp and the title, date and "15S," in pencil, on mount verso. 1931; printed 1970s

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From the Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia; to the present owner in the late 1980s.
Edward Weston: Photographs, 655/1931.
Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston, 90.
According to Amy Conger, Weston produced this surrealist-like photograph on October 13 during a fine, icy rain on Point Lobos. Weston stated, "I have done this too boldly, honestly, to be accused of pretence, --that I had found it so placed...My own response in making it was one of emotion from contrasting scale,--the tiny shell in a vast expanse, yet the shell dominating."
Merle Armitage said of the photograph, after requesting a second print of this image, that it was a "swell sur-realiste if I ever saw it" and pictorialist J.T. Morey saw the image at an international salon and commented that it reminded him of "some of Salvador Dali's Surrealist paintings. If it were anyone but Weston, it might be an accident: as it is, we can put it down as rather ghoulish humor."