Sale 2691
New York
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5 April 2013
Price realised
USD 56,250
Estimate
EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958) Shell, 1927 gelatin silver print signed, dated and numbered '3/50' in pencil (on the mount); various annotations in pencil (on the reverse of the mount) image: 9 3/8 x 7in. (24.3 x 18.2cm.) mount: 14 7/8 x 13 1/8in. (38.2 x 33.8cm.)
Provenance
With Paul Hertzmann Inc., San Francisco
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Literature
Mora, Edward Weston: Forms of Passion, Harry N. Abrams, 1995, the frontispiece is the present lot
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