221
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SHEELER, CHARLES (1883-1965)
Brancusi sculpture. Silver print, 9
1
/
2
x5 inches
(24.1x12.7 cm.), with notations on verso.
Circa 1940
[4,000/6,000]
The sculpture is an artistic “depiction” of Agnes
Meyer, who was a prominent art collector and patron
of European avant-garde artists. Meyer’s friendship
with the Romanian-born Brancusi was longstanding.
They were apparently introduced by Edward Steichen
around 1912, and within a few years Meyer was
among Brancusi’s earliest American advocates and
collectors. Over their decades-long friendship, Meyer
assembled a choice collection of five Brancusi
sculptures, including La Negresse Blonde (1926),
which she and Elise Haas gifted to SFMOMA
shortly after the artist’s death.
221A
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WESTON, BRETT (1911-1993)
“FordTri Motor Plane.” Silver print, 7
1
/
2
x9
1
/
2
inches (17.1x24.1 cm.), with Weston’s
signature and date, in pencil, on mount recto.
1935; printed circa 1980
[3,000/4,500]
221
221A
