About Face: The David and Gail Mixer Collection of Photographs
Edward Weston
1886 - 1958
Tina with Tear
gelatin silver print, mounted, initialed and dated in pencil on the mount, framed
image: 9 by 6¾ in. (22.9 by 17.1 cm.)
frame: 19¾ by 17½ in. (50.2 by 44.5 cm.)
Executed in 1924.
Condition Report
Provenance
Gift of Tina Modotti to Pablo O'Higgins
Family of Pablo O'Higgins
Christie's, New York, 4 October 1994, Sale 7598, Lot 41
Spencer Throckmorton Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner, Deborah Bell Photographs, New York, as agent
Literature
Nancy Newhall, ed., The Daybooks of Edward Weston, Volume I, Mexico (Millerton, 1973), p. 45
Ben Maddow, Edward Weston: Fifty Years (Millerton, 1973), p. 103
Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., Weston’s Westons: Portraits and Nudes (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989), pl. 10
Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of Center for Creative Photography (Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 1992), pl. 112
Edward Weston: Portraits (New York: Aperture, 1995), p. 44
Tina Modotti: Photographs 1923-1929 (New York: Spencer Throckmorton Fine Art, 1995), p. 7 (this print)
Tina Modotti: Photographs (New York: Robert Miller Gallery and Spencer Throckmorton Fine Art, 1997), pl. 1 (this print)
Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., Karen Quinn, and Leslie Furth, Edward Weston: Photography and Modernism (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1999), pl. 16
Exhibited
New York, Spencer Throckmorton Fine Art, Tina Modotti: Photographs 1923-1929, September - November 1995
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Tina Modotti, Photographs, May - June 1997