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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 5, 2022 | Sotheby's | New York | Photographs | 17 | $****** - ****** | Excellent | Frozen Lake and Cliffs, Sierra Nevada, California |
photographs
24.4 x 31.4 cm (9.63 x 12.38 in)
gelatin silver print, mounted
signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 11), with title and date in ink, on the reverse, 1927
Ansel Adams, Making a Photograph (London, 1948), pl. 13
Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, This is the American Earth (San Francisco, 1960), p. 78
Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 66
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 27
Ansel Adams, Celebrating the American Earth: A Portfolio by Ansel Adams (Washington, D. C., 1980), unpaginated
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 10
James Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1984 (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1984), p. 12
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 9
Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 289
John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), p. 141
Andrea Gray Stillman. and William A. Turnage, eds., Ansel Adams: Our National Parks (Boston, 1992), p. 70
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 32
Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Boston, 2005), pl. 87
Ansel Adams, Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail (New York, 2006), pl. 49
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 93
Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), pp. 70 and 79
Mary Street Alinder, Group f.64 (New York, 2014), unpaginated
Ansel Adams
1902-1984
'Frozen Lake and Cliffs, Sierra Nevada, California'
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 11), with title and date in ink, on the reverse, 1927, probably printed between 1973 and 1977
image: 9 ⅝ by 12 ⅜ in. (24.4 by 31.4 cm.)
