Lot 100
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EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)
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EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)

Tina Modotti, Glendale, 1921

Details
EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)
Tina Modotti, Glendale, 1921
platinum print
numbered '98 6076' in unknown hand in pencil on verso
9½ x 7 3/8in. (24 x 18.6cm.)
Provenance
Asunta Modotti, Tina's mother;
to Yolanda Modotti, Tina's sister;
to a private collection;
Christie's East, 14 May 1981, lot 114;
Christie's New York, 8 April 1998, lot 184;
by agent to the present owner.
Literature
A. Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs, Tucson, 1992, fig.921, for a variant ('Head of an Italian Girl, Dressed').
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

This photograph was taken in the year that Weston met Modotti and began their relationship. Amy Conger refers to a print of Modotti '...with her eyes closed, seemingly in serene rapture...cut off about the collar bone...in which she is obviously nude...'1, which appears to describe this image.

1 Edward Weston: Photographs, fig.921.

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