Photographs
Photographs
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.