Live Auction 12626Modern Visions: Exceptional Photographs
Edward Weston (1886-1958)
Lot 194

Edward Weston (1886-1958)

Maguey, Mexico, 1926

Closed18 February 2016

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USD 6,250

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Edward Weston (1886-1958)
Maguey, Mexico, 1926
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1949
signed by Cara Weston in Cole Weston collection stamp, with credit, title, date, and annotations in pencil and ink (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 7 3/8 x 9 3/8 in. (18.7 x 23.8 cm.)
mount: 8 ½ x 11 in. (21.5 x 27.9 cm.)

with Joel Soroka Gallery, Aspen, Colorado.

Specialist note

This print is on the characteristic gray exhibition mount used in the important The World of Edward Weston exhibition, which was mounted by the Smithsonian Institute in 1956 and subsequently circulated widely to venues such as the George Eastman House and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.