Sale 2691
New York
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5 April 2013
Price realised
USD 27,500
Estimate
EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958) Charis, 1934 gelatin silver print signed, dated and numbered '2-50' in pencil (on the mount); annotated '194 N' in pencil (on the reverse of the mount) image: 4 5/8 x 3½in. (12.2 x 9.3cm.) mount: 11 x 9in. (28.4 x 23.3cm.)
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Literature
Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs, Center for Creative Photography, 1992, fig. 855/1934
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