ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)

Lot 241
23.01.2026 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 500 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1539406
Lot 241 | ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Estimate value
$ 500 000 – 700 000
ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941
gelatin silver mural print, flush-mounted on board, printed by 1967
annotated 'George Eastman House' by an unknown hand in pencil (flush mount, verso)
image/sheet/flush mount: 28 3/8 x 38 1/8 in. (72.1 x 96.8 cm.)




Provenance

Gifted by the artist to Ted Orland and Linda Dunne;
Andrew Smith Gallery, 1980s;
Private Collection, New York, 1989;
acquired from the above by the present owner.



Literature

Ansel Adams, Photographs of the Southwest, New York Graphic Society, Boston, 1966, pl. 55.
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1989, cover, p. 40.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2001, pl. 96.
Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005, pl. 37, p. 68.
Andrea G. Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2007, p. 175.



Exhibited

Rochester, George Eastman Museum, Eloquent Light: Photographs by Ansel Adams, March 17 - May 14, 1967.
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