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ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)

Lot 60
03.10.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1303639
Lot 60 | ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, 1927
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1975-1976
signed in pencil (mount, recto); credited, titled and dated in ink in photographer's Carmel credit stamp [BMFA 11] (mount, verso); credited, titled, dated on gallery labels (mat, verso & frame backing board)
image/sheet: 19 3/8 x 14 3/8 in. (49.2 x 36.5 cm.)
mount: 28 x 21 7/8 in. (71.1 x 73.3 cm.)
overall framed: 31 ½ x 25 1/8 in. (80 x 63.8 cm.)




Provenance

Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, April 4, 2019, lot 157;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.





Literature

Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams Volume 1: The Eloquent Light, Sierra Club, San Francisco, 1963, p. 45.
Ansel Adams and John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1977, Section 3, pl. 1.
Ansel Adams and Paul Brooks, Yosemite and the Range of Light, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1979, pl. 54, p. 87.
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1983, p. 2.
James Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1984, The Friends of Photography, Carmel, c. 1984, cover and cover page.
Ansel Adams and Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, New York Graphic Society; Little, Brown and Company, New York; Boston, 1985, p. 77.
Ansel Adams et al., Ansel Adams: Letters and Images: 1916-1984, A New York Graphic Society; Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1988, p. 31.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 2001, p. 20, fig. 10.
Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2007, p. 35.
Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams in the National Parks: Photographs from America's Wild Places, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2010, p. 298.
Andrea G. Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2012, p. 42-43.
Walter Moser et al., American Photography, The Albertina Museum, Vienna, 2020, pg. 48



Exhibited

Vienna, The Albertina Museum, American Photography, August 24, 2021 - November 28, 2021.
Artist:Ansel Easton Adams (1902 - 1984)
Applied technique:Gelatin silver print
Auction house category:Photography
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