Edward Weston

mounted, initialed and dated in pencil on the mount, signed in full, dated, and annotated by the photographer and with the Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Collection notations in pencil on the reverse, framed, 1923, likely printed in the 1940s

Collection of Beaumont and Nancy Newhall

Collection of Eugene and Barbara Schwartz

Sotheby’s New York, 2 May 1986, Sale 5453, Lot 225

Collection of Warren Coville

Phillips New York, Photographs from The Coville Collection, 26 April 1999, Sale 811, Lot 176

Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, circa 2000

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Vantage Point, Photographs from the Warren J. Coville Collection, February - April 1992

Conger 111

Ben Maddow, Edward Weston: Fifty Years (Aperture, 1971), no. 107 (variant cropping)

Edward Weston: La Mirada de la Ruptura (México City: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1994), no. 10

Terence Pitts, Edward Weston: 1886-1958 (Cologne, 2004), p. 71

Amy Conger, Edward Weston: The Form of the Nude (London, 2005), p. 39

Edward Weston: Nudes (Aperture, 1977), p. 31

Edward Weston: Portraits (Aperture 140, Summer 1995) p. 45

This print, on semi-glossy paper with an eggshell texture, is in overall very good condition. Visible in raking light are the following: several deposits of the photographer's original retouching, two very faint scratches that do not appear to break the emulsion; one across the sitter's right breast and the other across her elbow. When examined closely, some very faint fading and slight attendant discoloration is visible at the edges of the print. The reverse of the mount is signed and annotated 'Mexico 1923' and 'Original Print was on Palladiotype.' The notation from the Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Collection, 'N / B + N / 529,' is written in pencil. Several other notations in an unidentified hand in pencil read: '67 N 23'; '1' (circled); '62%'; 'GEH Copy neg. 13582'; '32' (circled); and 'WMC 579.' The mount is somewhat soiled, with fingerprints, a few faint liquid deposits, and a small, red smudge on the reverse.
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