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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 | 22 | $****** - ****** | Excellent | Georgia O"Keeffe and Orville Cox, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona |
photographs
24.8 x 27.9 cm (9.75 x 11 in)
gelatin silver print, mounted, framed
signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer"s Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 11), with title and date in ink, and a Michael and Jeanne Adams collection; , on the reverse
Collection of Virginia Best Adams
By descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1980s
Acquired from the above, 2007
Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings on Hudson, 1972), pl. 42
Ansel Adams, The Camera (Boston, 1980), fig. 2-1
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 152
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 227
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 14
Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 99
Wanda M. Corn, Georgia O"Keeffe: Living Modern (New York, 2018), p. 127
Susan Danly, Georgia O"Keeffe and the Camera: The Art of Identity (New Haven, Connecticut, 2008), pp. 15 and 63
Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Boston, 2005), pl. 45
John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), p. 43
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The Grand Canyon and the Southwest (Boston, 2000) , p. 37
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 157
Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 94
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
Georgia O"Keeffe and Orville Cox, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer"s Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 11), with title and date in ink, and a Michael and Jeanne Adams collection stamp, on the reverse, framed, 1937, probably printed between 1973 and 1977; accompanied by a certificate of provenance, signed by Michael and Jeanne Adams (2)
image: 9 3/4 by 11 in. (24.8 by 27.9 cm.)
frame: 18 7/8 by 22 7/8 in. (47.9 by 58.1 cm.)
