Live Auction 12626Modern Visions: Exceptional Photographs
Edward Weston (1886-1958)
Lot 195

Edward Weston (1886-1958)

Purple Cabbage, 1/2 and 2/4s, 1936

Closed18 February 2016

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USD 27,500

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Edward Weston (1886-1958)
Purple Cabbage, 1/2 and 2/4s, 1936
gelatin silver print
signed, dated, and numbered '5-40' in pencil (mount, recto); titled and numbered '63V' in pencil (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 7 5/8 x 9 5/8 in. (19.3 x 24.5 cm.)
mount: 14 7/8 x 15 3/8 in. (37.8 x 39.1 cm.)

The artist;
Gifted to Mrs. Maxfield Parrish.

Specialist note

For the first time in months, I am excited to work, and by 'still-life,' - though I do not like the designation still-life, a misnomer for my most living artichokes, peppers, onions, cabbage! Cabbage has renewed my interest, marvelous hearts, like carved ivory, leaves with veins like flame, with forms carved like the most exquisite shell.
Edward Weston