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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 27, 2025 | Sotheby's | New York | Photographs | 45 | $****** - ****** | ‘Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, California" |
photographs
39 x 48.3 cm (15.38 x 19 in)
gelatin silver print, mounted
signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer"s Carmel studio stamp (BMFA I), with title and date ‘1978" in ink, on the reverse
Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light (San Francisco: The Sierra Club, 1963), pp. 88-9
Liliane de Cock, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 71
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), cover
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 102
James Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1984 (Carmel, 1984), p. 34
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 243
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 46
Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 369
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The American Wilderness (Boston, 1990), pl. 51
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Yosemite: Ansel Adams (Boston, 1995), unpaginated
Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: A Biography (New York, 1996), unpaginated
John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide, Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1999), fig. 9.10-11
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (Boston, 2001), p. 89
Karen Haas and Rebecca Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Boston, 2005), pl. 57
Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 123
Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man (New York, 2012), p. 102
Peter Galassi, Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley: Celebrating the Park at 150 (Boston, 2014), p. 191
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
‘Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, California"
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer"s Carmel studio stamp (BMFA I), with title and date ‘1978" in ink, on the reverse, framed, a Photography West Gallery, Carmel, label on the reverse
image: 15⅜ by 19 in. (39.1 by 48.3 cm.)
frame: 25½ by 21½ in. (64.8 by 54.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1937, printed in 1978.
