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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 | 67 | $****** - ****** | Excellent | "Aspens, New Mexico" |
photographs
37.5 x 47.9 cm (14.75 x 18.88 in)
gelatin silver print, mounted to Hi-Art illustration board, framed
signed in ink on the mount, the photographer"s Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 6 and 7), titled in ink, on the reverse; an Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, label on the reverse; 1958
Morehouse Gallery, Brookline, 2006, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agent
Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, This is the American Earth (San Francisco, 1960), cover and pp. 88-9
Ansel Adams and Lawrence Clark Powell, Photographs of the Southwest (Boston, 1976), pl. 96
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 60
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 174
Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 314
Janet Swan Bush, ed., Trees (Boston, 2004), p. 9
John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), fig. 9.8
Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 6.11
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The Grand Canyon and the Southwest (Boston, 2000), p. 85,
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), cover and p. 375
Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 198
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pp. 104-5
John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), p. 116
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
"Aspens, New Mexico"
gelatin silver print, mounted to Hi-Art illustration board, signed in ink on the mount, the photographer"s Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 6 and 7), titled in ink, on the reverse, framed, an Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, label on the reverse, 1958, probably printed between 1962 and 1963
image: 14 3/4 by 18 7/8 in. (37.5 by 47.9 cm.)
frame: 31 1/2 by 35 1/2 in. (80 by 90.2 cm.)
