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    • EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)
    Lot 209

    EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)

    Charis, 1934

    Price realised

    USD 27,500

    Estimate

    USD 8,000 - USD 12,000

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    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 and exhibited

    Literature

    Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs, Center for Creative Photography, 1992, fig. 855/1934


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