Brett Weston - Photographs Evening & Day New York Wednesday, October 5, 2016 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Robert K. Byers, Carmel, CA acquired directly from the artist

  • Literature

    CameraAperture, Brett Weston: Voyage of the Eye, p. 93
    Oklahoma City Museum of Art and The Phillips Collection, Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow, pl. 48
    Photography West Graphics, Brett Weston: Master Photographer, pl. 8
    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Brett Weston Photographs: 1925 - 1930 and 1980 - 1982, p. 9
    Heyman, Seeing Straight: The f.64 Revolution in Photography, pl. 70
    Tucker, Group f.64, p. 45

  • Catalogue Essay

    In 1929, the same year Edward and Brett Weston opened their portrait studio in Carmel, California, Brett took this compelling image of close family friend Ramiel McGehee. McGehee, a writer, was a very good and trusted friend of Edward's and as Weston described in his Daybooks “He alone from out of the potpourri of friends and acquaintances has emerged a definite clear-cut figure from whom I cannot part…” Another print of this image is in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

58

Untitled (Hand and Ear of Ramiel McGehee)

1929
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
7 3/8 x 9 1/2 in. (18.7 x 24.1 cm)
Signed and dated in pencil on the mount.

Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

Sold for $20,000

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Photographs Evening & Day

New York 5 & 6 October 2016