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BRETT WESTON (1911-1993)
Lot 31 PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGEFELD COLLECTION

BRETT WESTON (1911-1993)

Tin Roofs, Mexico, 1926

Closed15 May 2008

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GBP 23,300

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BRETT WESTON (1911-1993)
Tin Roofs, Mexico, 1926
gelatin silver print
signed and dated in pencil on mount; credited, titled in German and numbered '41' in other hands in pencil on reverse of mount
7 1/8 x 9½in. (20 x 24cm.)

As lot 27.

Specialist note

This image demonstrates a precocious mastery by the still teenage Brett. It is a graphically refined abstraction, perfectly observed and captured, that sets up a dynamic contrast between the fine linear patterning within the diagonal structures of the roof slopes and the bold negative shape of the central shadow area.

This specific image was one of twenty by Brett Weston selected by his father for the Film und Foto exhibition.