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EDWARD WESTON (American, 1886-1958) BOAT AND COVE, POINT LOBOS signed and dated “Edward Weston 19...

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EDWARD WESTON (American, 1886-1958) BOAT AND COVE, POINT LOBOS signed and dated “Edward Weston 19...
EDWARD WESTON
(American, 1886-1958)
BOAT AND COVE, POINT LOBOS
signed and dated “Edward Weston 1939” in pencil below image on mount
gelatin silver print mounted on board
71?2 x 99?16 in. (19.1 x 24.3 cm)
mount: 91?2 x 111?2 in. (24.1 x 29.2 cm)
1939
ESTIMATE: $7,000-10,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, atlanta
Boat And Cove, Point Lobos confirms Edward Weston’s remarkable capacity to capture abstract forms in nature. By situating himself high above the beach, Weston divides the photograph into three parallel zones that emphasize the richness and depth of the print’s tones. More remarkable is the combination of objects in the foreground of the work: a wooden rowboat flanked by skeletal remains of a whale. The juxtaposition of these seemingly incongruent objects is clarified by an entry in his daybook eight years earlier: “This jaw bone is thrilling like the prow of a ship. I only indicate the likeness of bones or kelp, or anything else, to other forms in nature, to show the relativity of everything” (Edward Weston, THE DAYBOOKS OF EDWARD WESTON, vol. II, Janurary 31, 1930, p. 141). Indeed, here the conflation of the primordial with the present, the natural with the man-made embodies the relativity of both time and objects and creates the sort of piercing revelation that Weston desired from his photographs.