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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 6, 2013 | Sotheby's | New York | Photographs | 40 | $****** - ****** | Monolith, The Face Of Half Dome |
photographs
100.3 x 73.6 cm (39.49 x 28.98 in)
gelatin silver print
signed, titled, and dated in ink on the reverse
Acquired from Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, early 1990s
David Travis and Anne Kennedy, Photography Rediscovered: American Photographs, 1900-1930 (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1979), pl. 156; Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005), pl. 5; Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: A Biography (New York, 1996), facing p. 106; Karen E. Quinn and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Ansel Adams: The Early Years (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1991), pl. 6; Therese T. Heyman, ed., Seeing Straight: The f.64 Revolution in Photography (The Oakland Museum, 1992), p. 44; Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, eds., Ansel Adams: Letters and Images, 1916 - 1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 31; James Alinder and Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Ansel Adams: Classic Images, The Museum Set (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1985), pl. 2; Ansel Adams and Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 77; Ansel Adams, Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 54; Ansel Adams (Morgan & Morgan, 1972), pl. 8; Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Photographs 1923-1963 (Sierra Club., 1963), dust jacket and p. 45; Andrea G. Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (New York, 2007, p. 35; Other prints of this image:
