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Edward Weston Nude 1936 Gelatin silver print from The Photographs of Edward Weston printed circa 1953 by Brett Weston 9 1/2 x 7 5/8 in. (24.1 x 19.4 cm) Initialed and dated in pencil on the mount; printed title, date and negative number on 'The Photographs of Edward Weston' label affixed to the reverse of the mount. One from an edition of 6.
Provenance Gift of Max McGraw, 1959 Literature Aperture, Edward Weston Fifty Years, p. 267 Conger, Edward Weston Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, fig. 968 Mora, Edward Weston Forms of Passion, cover and p. 223, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Edward Weston Photography and Modernism, pl. 75 Catalogue Essay In 1953, upon the request of his friends and colleagues, an ailing Edward Weston chose 830 negatives—a master set--from which his son Brett then made prints. The set, titled The Photographs of Edward Weston spans Weston’s impressive career and helped to canonize his achievements. It is held complete only at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The Art Institute, meanwhile, received a little under one-quarter of the set as a gift in 1959 from Max McGraw, an early wildlife conservationist who knew Weston well. The pictures on offer here in lots 51, 59, 62-63, 65, and 68-69 all come from that acquisition. Already in 1951, meanwhile, the Art Institute had purchased a number of photographs from Weston using its very first photography purchase fund, established by the wife of an industrialist and amateur photographer named Stuyvesant Peabody (lot 67). Other prints of this image are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson. Read More