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LOT 30532565191  |  Catalogue: Photographs

Edward Weston [FRONTISPIECE TO THE APERTURE WESTON MONOGRAPH]

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By ADAMS, Ansel (1902-1984)
Gelatin silver print, the negative c. 1950, image/sheet 8-1/2 x 6-1/2 in. (21.6 x 16.5 cm), mounted on cream board 12 x 10 in. (30.5 x 25.4 cm); printed by Adams c. 1960; signed in ink (mount, recto, below lower right corner of image); titled in pencil, with CCP and AAPRT stamps and other notations (mount, verso). Exemplary condition. Among the tributes on p. 84 of the 1965 Aperture monograph, of which this image is the frontispiece, Adams says of his friend, mentor and colleague: "Weston is, in the real sense, one of the few great creative artists of today. He has recreated the mother-forms and forces of nature; he has made these forms eloquent of the fundamental unity of the world. His work illuminates man's journey toward perfection of the spirit." Literature: Nancy Newhall (ed.), Edward Weston Photographer: The Flame of Recognition (Rochester: Aperture Inc., 1965), frontispiece. John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2001) (the touring centennial exhibition organized by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), p. 24 and fig. 14. Provenance: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona (no. D15x28), given by the photographer alongside the Ansel Adams Archive as an unaccessioned duplicate intended to benefit the endowment. Examples of this image are rare. Apart from the four archive prints at CCP (with incrementally different tonalities and croppings) and the print in the encyclopedic Lane Collection gifted to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in 2018, no print has been found, inter alia, at MMA, MoMA, NGA, Art Institute Chicago, MFA Houston, Getty or LACMA, or in the former Library Collection assembled by Adams for Polaroid. In his magisterial centennial monograph Szarkowski compares this image to a Holbein.
Publication year: 1950
Vendor: Arca Amoris Alitis

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By ADAMS, Ansel (1902-1984)
Gelatin silver print, the negative c. 1950, image/sheet 8-1/2 x 6-1/2 in. (21.6 x 16.5 cm), mounted on cream board 12 x 10 in. (30.5 x 25.4 cm); printed by Adams c. 1960; signed in ink (mount, recto, below lower right corner of image); titled in pencil, with CCP and AAPRT stamps and other notations (mount, verso). Exemplary condition. Among the tributes on p. 84 of the 1965 Aperture monograph, of which this image is the frontispiece, Adams says of his friend, mentor and colleague: "Weston is, in the real sense, one of the few great creative artists of today. He has recreated the mother-forms and forces of nature; he has made these forms eloquent of the fundamental unity of the world. His work illuminates man's journey toward perfection of the spirit." Literature: Nancy Newhall (ed.), Edward Weston Photographer: The Flame of Recognition (Rochester: Aperture Inc., 1965), frontispiece. John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2001) (the touring centennial exhibition organized by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), p. 24 and fig. 14. Provenance: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona (no. D15x28), given by the photographer alongside the Ansel Adams Archive as an unaccessioned duplicate intended to benefit the endowment. Examples of this image are rare. Apart from the four archive prints at CCP (with incrementally different tonalities and croppings) and the print in the encyclopedic Lane Collection gifted to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in 2018, no print has been found, inter alia, at MMA, MoMA, NGA, Art Institute Chicago, MFA Houston, Getty or LACMA, or in the former Library Collection assembled by Adams for Polaroid. In his magisterial centennial monograph Szarkowski compares this image to a Holbein.
Publication year: 1950
Vendor: Arca Amoris Alitis

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