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.

Brett Weston

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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