EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)

Nude - Dunes at Oceano, 1936

Details

EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)
Nude - Dunes at Oceano, 1936
gelatin silver print
initialed and dated, in pencil (on the mount); signed, titled and dated, in pencil (on the reverse of the mount)
7 5/8 x 9½in. (19.3 x 24.1cm.)

Provenance

With Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Literature

Weston, "Light vs. Lighting", Camera Craft, vol. 46, no. 5 (May 1939), p. 204; Weston, "Photographic Art", Encyclopedia Britannica, 1941, vol. 17, p. 938; Newhall, "Edward Weston in Retrospect", Popular Photography, vol. 18 (March 1946), pp. 42-43; Armitage, ed., Fifty Photographs: Edward Weston, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947, pl. 19; "Edward Weston: A Retrospective Portfolio", Popular Photography, vol. 37 (February 1955), p. 72; Wilson, Edward Weston: Nudes, Aperture, 1977, p. 85; Maddow, Edward Weston: His Life and Photographs, Aperture, 1979, p. 171; Stebbins, Jr., Weston's Westons: Portraits and Nudes, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Little, Brown and Co., 1989, cat. no. 94, pl. 54; Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 1992, fig. 928/1936, there titled 'Nude on Sand, Oceano'; Mora, ed., Edward Weston: Forms of Passion, Harry N. Abrams, 1995, p. 216; Stebbins, Jr., Quinn and Furth, Edward Weston: Photography and Modernism, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Little, Brown and Co., 1999, pl. 72

Lot Essay

Weston gave a print of this photograph to the painter and photographer, Charles Sheeler who wrote back: "I am greatly enjoying the print you generously sent me. If there is a more beautiful photograph of the human figure any where I haven't see it. One associates it with a quality of drawing such as Ingres set forth in the Odalisque." (Quoted in: Stebbins, Jr., Weston's Westons, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Little, Brown and Co., 1995, p. 30). When Weston compiled his printing log, he did not remember exactly how many prints he made of this negative but he recorded that he made at least eight prints. There are nine prints known to be in public collections.

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