Photographs

EDWARD WESTON | ROCK FORMATIONS, MOJAVE DESERT, CALIFORNIA

Lot Closed

April 3, 04:39 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection, Sold to Benefit The Asia Foundation

EDWARD WESTON

1886-1958

ROCK FORMATIONS, MOJAVE DESERT, CALIFORNIA

mounted, signed and dated in pencil on the mount, inscribed 'To Fay / on a summer day / Edward - 1928,' in pencil on the reverse, framed, a Michael Shapiro Photographs label on the reverse, 1928

7½ by 9⅜ in. (19.1 by 23.8 cm.)

Gift of the photographer to Fay Fuqua

Private collection, California

Private collection, New York

Christie's New York, 22 October 2002, Sale 1135, Lot 178

Private collection, New York

Artcurial, 21 November 2015, Lot 55, Michael Shapiro as agent

The 'Fay' to whom this photograph is inscribed is Fay Fuqua, a dancer who posed for Weston several times beginning in 1928.