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Ansel Adams

'The Golden Gate (Before the Bridge)'

Lot Closed

April 10, 03:01 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'The Golden Gate (Before the Bridge)'


mural-sized gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 5 and 6), titled in ink, on the reverse, framed; accompanied by a selection of original typed correspondence on the photographer's letterhead and corresponding postmarked envelopes

image: 18¾ by 27⅝ in. (47.6 by 70.2 cm.)

frame: 28¼ by 36½ in. (71.8 by 92.7 cm.)

Executed in 1932, printed in 1965.

This lot is accompanied by a selection of original typed correspondence on the photographer's letterhead and corresponding postmarked envelopes.

The photographer to Dick Erath, Willamette Valley wine pioneer, 1965

By descent to the present owner

Ansel Adams, Making a Photograph: An Introduction to Photography (London and New York, 1948), pl. 12

Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 23

Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 114

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 11

James and Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: A San Francisco Heritage (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1987), pl. 2

Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: A Biography (New York, 1996), unpaginated

Andrea G. Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: California (Boston, 1997), pp. 16-7

Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Boston, 2005), pl. 21

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 75