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Lot 45
EDWARD WESTON (1886–1958)
Kelp, China Cove, Point Lobos, 1940
Closed5 October 2018
Price Realised
USD 18,750
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Specialist note
As Amy Conger notes, Kelp, China Cove, Point Lobos is a classic image within Weston’s oeuvre. ‘While the black hole is the visual magnet of the composition, the illuminated rocks in the foreground define the space and keep the composition from floating away into a totally unarticulated abstraction… The kelp seems magic, and the water, electrically charged. It is an example of an extremely delicate, fine job of printing’ (Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs, fig. 1530/1940).
Weston and Charis explored Point Lobos repeatedly during their travels through California after Weston was awarded the first Guggenheim Fellowship grant for photography in 1937.
Conger locates other prints of this image in institutional collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, among others.
… to see Point Lobos with Edward was to see Dante’s Inferno and Paradiso simultaneously.
– Nancy Newhall
Weston and Charis explored Point Lobos repeatedly during their travels through California after Weston was awarded the first Guggenheim Fellowship grant for photography in 1937.
Conger locates other prints of this image in institutional collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, among others.
… to see Point Lobos with Edward was to see Dante’s Inferno and Paradiso simultaneously.
– Nancy Newhall