Edward Weston - The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something Foundation, Part 2 New York Tuesday, April 4, 2017 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    The photographer to Zeitlin & ver Brugge Booksellers, Los Angeles
    Graham Nash, Los Angeles, early 1970s
    Sotheby’s, New York, Photographs from the Collection of Graham Nash, 25 April 1990, lot 192
    Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago, and Mark Kelman, New York
    Sotheby's, New York, 6 April 1993, lot 163
    Fine Art of Ancient Lands (Throckmorton Fine Art), New York
    Mark Kelman, New York, and Doris Bry, New York, as agents, 1995

  • Literature

    Lodima Press, Edward Weston: Life Work, pl. 28
    Aperture, Edward Weston: Fifty Years: The Definitive Volume of his Photographic Work, p. 101

  • Catalogue Essay

    The photograph offered here is the best known of three portraits Edward Weston made of English writer D. H. Lawrence in Mexico in 1924. It is accompanied by a photographic postcard of Lawrence and companions José Garcia and Donald Miller in the ruins at Mitla, sent by Lawrence to Weston in December of that year. On the reverse, Lawrence refers to his sitting with Weston: “I shall be glad to have the photographs, but will you let me pay for them! Put the bill in with them. And let me know what I can do about getting them placed for you – in Vanity Fair, for example – or in a London Illustrated. . .”

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D.H. Lawrence

1924
Gelatin silver print.
9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (24.1 x 19.1 cm)
Signed, titled 'México D. H.' and dated in pencil on the mount. Accompanied by a postcard from Lawrence to Weston, dated December 11, 1924.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $22,500

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The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something Foundation, Part 2

New York 4 April 2017