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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 11, 2019 | Christie's | New York | Ansel Adams and the American West: Photographs from the Center for Creative Photography | 41 | $****** - ****** | Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941 |
photographs
39.3 x 48.9 cm (15.47 x 19.25 in)
gelatin silver print
signed in pencil (mount, recto); titled and dated in ink in photographer's Carmel credit stamp [BMFA Stamp 11], and with Center for Creative Photography & AAPRT stamps (mount, verso)
Ansel Adams, Photographs of the Southwest, New York Graphic Society, Boston, 1966, pl. 55.
Robert M. Doty, Photography in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1974, pp. 130-131.
James Alinder, Ansel Adams, 1902-1984, The Friends of Photography, Carmel, 1984, p. 55.
Ansel Adams & Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1985, p. 274.
Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1988, p. 142.
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1989, cover, p. 40.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1999, pl. 32.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2001, pl. 96.
Anne Hammond, Ansel Adams, Divine Performance, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002, p. 94, fig. 4.10.
Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005, pl. 37, p. 68.
Andrea G. Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2007, p. 175.
Andrea G. Stillman (ed.), Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2012, p. 114.
mounted on board, printed 1973-1977
signed in pencil (mount, recto), titled and dated in ink in photographer's Carmel credit stamp [BMFA Stamp 11], and with Center for Creative Photography &, AAPRT stamps (mount, verso)
