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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 19, 2023 | Christie's | New York | Photographs | 30 | $****** - ****** | Frozen Lake and Cliffs, Sierra Nevada, California, 1932 |
photographs
40.3 x 50.5 cm (15.88 x 19.88 in)
gelatin silver print, mounted on board
signed in pencil (mount, recto); titled and dated "1927" in photographer"s Carmel credit [BMFA Stamp 11] in ink (mount, verso)
James Alinder, Ansel Adams: 1902-1984 , The Friends of Photography, Carmel, 1984, p. 12.
Ansel Adams and Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography , Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1985, p. 147.
Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 , Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1988, p. 289.
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs , Little, Brown and Co., New Haven, 1989, p. 10.
Anne Hammond, Ansel Adams: Divine Performance , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002, fig. 2.7, p. 52.
Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection , Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005, pl. 62, p. 95.
Andrea G. Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams In The National Parks , Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2010, pp. 10, 300.
Andrea G. Stillman (ed.), Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man , Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2012, pp. 70, 79.
ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Frozen Lake and Cliffs, Sierra Nevada, California, 1932
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1973-1977
signed in pencil (mount, recto); titled and dated "1927" in photographer"s Carmel credit [BMFA Stamp 11] in ink (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 9 5 ⁄ 8 x 12 1 ⁄ 4 in. (24.4 x 31.1 cm.)
mount: 15 7 ⁄ 8 x 19 7 ⁄ 8 in. (40.3 x 50.4 cm.)
