tipped at all corners to a mount, signed, dated '1932,' and inscribed 'To Fay' in pencil on the mount, 1931

Fay Fuqua, Glendale Richard Moore Photographs, Oakland

Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, 2007

Carol Williams Christopher, ed., Brett Weston: Master Photographer (Carmel, 1989), pl. 12 Stephen Bennett Phillips, ed., Brett Weston: Out of the Shadows (Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2008), p. 66

This early print is on lush matte-surface paper. It is in generally very good to excellent condition. The highlights are slightly creamy and there is age-appropriate silvering at the periphery of the print. The photograph is tipped to the mount at each corner. The mount is appropriately age-darkened with yellow-brown discoloration at the extreme edges. There are a few stray graphite marks. A handling crease is near the signature and date in the lower right corner. 'BW111' and 'BWE-00004-SP' are written in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse of the mount. There is yellow-brown discoloration overall, possibly from a previous frame. When examined under ultraviolet light, this print does not appear to fluoresce.
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Fay Fuqua was a dancer who posed nude for Edward Weston several times beginning in 1928.     There are no early prints of this rare image in the Brett Weston Archive.