Gelatin silver print, negative and print date 1959, pencil signed and numbered to mount at lower right, retains gallery label, matted, unframed.

Image size 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.; Mount size 13 1/4 x 15 in.; Mat size 16 x 20 in.

Brett Weston was born in Los Angeles to photographer Edward Weston in 1911. In 1925, he began apprenticing under his father in Mexico, surrounded by artists such as Tina Modotti, Frida Kahlo, and Diego Rivera. He returned to California in 1926 and assisted his father in his portrait studio. At the age of seventeen, a group of his images were included in the German exhibition “Film und Foto”, considered one of the most important avant-garde exhibitions held between the two World Wars, where he gained international recognition. In 1929, Brett and his father moved to Carmel, California where they would remain for the rest of their lives. He maintained his own studio and portrait business in Los Angeles and New York, where he was stationed in the army. He later traveled extensively on personal photographic trips to South America, Europe, Japan, Alaska, and Hawaii, and earned a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947, which he used to photograph along the East Coast.

Beautiful condition; several very small indentations at right of image that don't puncture surface and are only visible in raking light; few minor margin spots otherwise bright and clean.