Lot 99
  • 99

Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984)

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 EUR
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Description

  • Ansel Adams
  • Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico 1941
  • Gelatin Silver Print
Tirage argentique des années 1960 contrecollé sur carton. Signé Ansel Adams au crayon en bas à droite sur le carton. Au verso, avec tampon du photographe et titré Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico au feutre d'une main inconnue.

Silver print, flush-mounted on card and signed in pencil on the mount. On the reverse of the mount, with the photographer's stamp and titled in an unidentified hand.

Provenance

Collection privée, Californie, au propriétaire actuel.

Literature

Martha A. Sandweiss, Masterworks of American Photography. The Amon Carter Museum Collection, Birmingham, 1982, ill. pl. 125;
James Alinder/ John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams. Classic Images, Boston, 1985, ill. pl. 32;
Andrea G. Stillman (éd.), Ansel Adams. The Grand Canyon and the Southwest, Boston, 2000, ill. frontispiece;
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, cat. expo. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001, ill. pl. 96;
Karen E. Haas/ Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection, cat. expo. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 2005, ill. pl. 37;
Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams. 400 Photographs, Boston, Little Brown, 2007, ill. p. 175.

Condition

Generally in very good condition. With random minimal superficial rubbing, only visible in raking light.
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