Live Auction 16381An American Journey: The Diann G. and Thomas A. Mann Collection of Photographic Masterworks
EDWARD WESTON (1886–1958)
Lot 38

EDWARD WESTON (1886–1958)

Nude, 1934

Closed5 October 2018

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USD 37,500

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EDWARD WESTON (1886–1958)
Nude, 1934
gelatin silver print, mounted on board
signed, dated and numbered '3-50' in pencil (mount, recto); initialed, numbered '185N' and annotated 'this is 4-50 - not 3-50' in pencil (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 3 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (9.5 x 12 cm.)
mount: 9 x 11 in. (22.8 x 27.9 cm.)
This work is number four from an unrealized edition of fifty.

Janet Lehr, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1984.

Specialist note

The current print benefits from the edition number on the reverse of the mount, ‘4/50’—while it is well documented that these editions of fifty were never fully realized, these inscriptions aid scholars in dating prints to the desirable time period of the early 1930s.

After eight months we are closer together than ever. Perhaps C. will be remembered as the great love of my life. Already I have achieved certain heights reached with no other love.

—Edward Weston