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    • EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)
    Lot 161

    EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)

    Shell, 1927

    Price realised

    USD 56,250

    Estimate

    USD 70,000 - USD 90,000

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    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 and exhibited

    Literature

    Mora, Edward Weston: Forms of Passion, Harry N. Abrams, 1995, the frontispiece is the present lot


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