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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 10, 2022 | Christie's | New York | Adams & Company: Photographs of the American West Including Property from the Peter Fetterman Collection | 4 | $****** - ****** | Frozen Lake and Cliffs, The Sierra Nevada, California |
photographs
36.2 x 47.3 cm (14.25 x 18.63 in)
gelatin silver print, mounted on board
signed in pencil (mount, recto); credited, titled and dated [with print date] and identification number ‘834' in ink in photographer's Carmel Museum Set Edition credit stamp with photographer's copyright credit and The College of New Rochelle deaccession stamps (mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed gallery label (mat, verso)
Acquired directly from the artist by Martin Horwitz;
gifted to The College of New Rochelle by the above, 2012;
Doyle, New York, December 14, 2007, lot 145;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams Volume 1: The Eloquent Light , Sierra Club, San Francisco, 1963, p. 168-169.
Ansel Adams and Paul Brooks, Yosemite and the Range of Light , Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1979, pl. 27, p. 49.
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs , Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1983, p. 10.
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams 1902-1984 , The Friends of Photography, Carmel, c. 1984, p. 12.
Ansel Adams and Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography , New York Graphic Society; Little, Brown and Company, New York; Boston, 1985, p. 147.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 2001, pl. 32.
Andrea G. Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man , Little, Brown and Company, New York, p. 70-71, 73, and 79.
Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs , Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2007, p. 93.
Ansel Adams and Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams In the National Parks: Photographs from America's Wild Places, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2010, p. 10 and 300.
ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Frozen Lake and Cliffs, The Sierra Nevada, California, 193 2
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1980
signed in pencil (mount, recto); credited, titled and dated [with print date] and identification number ‘834' in ink in photographer's Carmel Museum Set Edition credit stamp with photographer's copyright credit and The College of New Rochelle deaccession stamps (mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed gallery label (mat, verso)
image/sheet: 14 1/4 x 18 5/8 in. (36.1 x 47.3 cm.)
mount: 22 x 28 in. (55.8 x 71.1 cm.)
