With their stark focus and elegant composition, the black-and-white images by 20th-century photographer Edward Weston are a striking example of visual poetry. It seems fitting, then, to describe Sotheby’s New York’s upcoming sale of the luminary’s work—a staggering single-lot auction comprising 548 Weston images—as a posthumous epic of Odyssean proportions. After Weston died in the late 1950s, his son Cole, a photographer himself, spent four decades printing these stunning still lifes, nudes, and landscapes from his father’s negatives. The collection will be exhibited at Sotheby’s from September 26 through 29 prior to the September 30 auction, when the hammer is estimated to strike in the $2-to-$3-million range.
Click through to preview six striking shots from this big-ticket sale.
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