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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 14, 2020 | Sotheby's | New York | A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Masterworks | 115 | $****** - ****** | Excellent | Frozen Lake and Cliffs, Sierra Nevada, California |
photographs
36.2 x 47.3 cm (14.25 x 18.63 in)
gelatin silver print, mounted, framed
signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer"s Carmel studio stamp, with title and date in ink, on the reverse; an Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, label on the reverse
Alan Klotz Gallery, New York, 2007, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agent
Ansel Adams, Making a Photograph (London, 1948), pl. 13
Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, This is the American Earth (San Francisco, 1960), p. 78
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
Ansel Adams, Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail (New York, 2006), pl. 49
James Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1984 , The Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA, 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
Mary Street Alinder, Group f.64 (New York, 2014), unpaginated
Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Boston, 2005), pl. 87
Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings on Hudson, 1972), pl. 66
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
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 93
Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 70 and 79
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 32
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, with title and date in ink, on the reverse, framed, an Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, label on the reverse, 1932, printed in 1981
image: 14 1/4 by 18 5/8 in. (36.2 by 46.7 cm.)
frame: 31 1/4 by 33 3/8 in. (79.4 by 84.8 cm.)
