Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Edward Weston
1886 - 1958
Nude
gelatin silver print, signed, dated, and annotated on the reverse in pencil, framed
image: 3⅜ by 4½ in. (8.6 by 11.4 cm.)
frame: 15⅜ by 12¼ in. (39.1 by 31.1 cm.)
Executed in 1934.
Condition Report
Provenance
Collection of David van Riper
El Mochuelo Gallery, Santa Barbara
Light Gallery, New York
Staley-Wise Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner
Literature
Beaumont Newhall and Amy Conger, eds., Edward Weston Omnibus (Salt Lake City, 1984), fig. 19
Beaumont Newhall, Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston (New York, 1986), p. 174
Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of Center for Creative Photography (Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 1992), fig. 850
Karen E. Quinn and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Weston’s Westons: California and the West (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1994), pl. 42
Amy Conger, Edward Weston: The Form of the Nude (London, 2005), p. 71
Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection (New York, 2021), pp. 43 and 420
Exhibited
New York, International Center of Photography, Weston's Westons, Portraits and Nudes, 1990