Sold for $37,800

Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

Lot Description

Ansel Adams (1902-1984)
Aspens, Northern New Mexico, 1958

Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1974, signed in pencil on the mount; titled in ink and 'Carmel' credit stamp on the mount verso.

image: 15 3/8 x 19 1/2in. (39 x 49.5cm.) mount: 22 x 28in. (55.9 x 71.1cm.)

Provenance:
From Ansel Adams;
to an Important Private Collection, Pennsylvania, acquired 1974

Literature:
Adams & Newhall, This is the American Earth, Little, Brown & Co., 1960, p. 89;
Adams & Powell, Photographs of the Southwest, New York Graphic Society, 1966, pl. 96;
Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown & Co., 1983, p. 63;
Adams & Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, Little, Brown & Co., 1985, p. 174;
Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams, Little, Brown & Co., 1998, VII, pl. 6;
Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Little, Brown & Co., 2001, pl. 104;
Hammond, Ansel Adams: Divine Performance, Yale University Press, 2002, fig. 5.7, p. 123;
Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown & Co., 2007, p. 373;
Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man, Little, Brown & Co., 2012, pp. 198 & 204

Condition Report

Neutral toned print on semi-gloss paper, trimmed to the edges and mounted on archival board. A beautiful print, in excellent condition. Sold framed, framed with plexiglass.

Frame dims 24 x 30in.

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