

Transcendence: Photography and the Sublime
155
Brett Weston
Surf, Big Sur, Calif.
- Estimate
- $3,000 - 5,000
$3,250
Lot Details
Gelatin silver print.
1952
7 5/8 x 9 5/8 in. (19.4 x 24.4 cm)
Signed and dated in pencil on the mount; titled in pencil on the reverse of the mount.
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Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
"Such is the constitution of all things, or such the plastic power of the human eye, that the primary forms, as the sky, the mountain, the tree, the animal, give us a delight in and for themselves; a pleasure arising from outline, color, motion, and grouping. This seems partly owing to the eye itself. The eye is the best of artists." – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, quoted in Brett Weston's book, Voyage of the Eye
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