Vente aux enchères en direct 2279The Miller-Plummer Collection of Photographs
Lot 516

EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)

Johnny, 1944

Fermé8 October 2009

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EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)
Johnny, 1944
gelatin silver print
initialed, dated and copyright insignia in pencil (on the mount); signed, titled and dated in pencil (on the reverse of the mount)
7½ x 9½in. (19.2 x 24.1cm.)

From the artist;
to Simeon and Janet Braguin; acquired 1970s

Note du spécialiste

Weston adored cats. At the time he made this photograph he had ten of them. Naturally, he made many photographs of his beloved cats. While preparing his 1946 retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, he wrote to the curator Nancy Newhall to urge her not to eliminate all the cat photographs and he described the present lot as 'my best cat portrait.' Weston got his way and Johnny graced the walls of MoMA.