Oct 22, 2009 - Sale 2191

Sale 2191 - Lot 185

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
WESTON, EDWARD (1886-1958)/WESTON, COLE (1919-2003)
"Toadstool." Silver print, 7 1/2x9 1/4 inches (19.1x23.5 cm.), with the "Negative by Edward Weston/Print by Cole Weston" notation, title, date and negative number on mount verso. 1931; printed 1970s

Additional Details

According to Weston historian Amy Conger, the photographer took six negatives of fungi but this image was the most popular.
Edward Weston: The Daybooks II. California, 8.
Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston, 35.
The Art of Edward Weston, 24.
Edward Weston: Photographs, 645/1931.