Ansel Adams 1902-1984

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

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Description

Ansel Adams
'WINTER SUNRISE, SIERRA NEVADA FROM LONE PINE, CALIFORNIA'

oversized, mounted, signed by the photographer in pencil on the mount, his Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 11), titled and dated in an unidentified hand in ink, on the reverse, matted, 1944, printed 1975-77

Literature

Other prints of this image:

Ansel Adams (Morgan & Morgan, 1972), pl. 77

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 2002), p. 162

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 85

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 38

Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 99

Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Photographs 1923-1963 (San Francisco, 1963, in conjunction with the exhibition originating at the M. H. De Young Memorial Museum), unpaginated

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 262

Catalogue Note

In 1975, the dealer Harry Lunn, Jr., then operating under the name of Graphics International Ltd., commissioned Ansel Adams to print three of his most famous images in large format: 'Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico' (see Lot 12), 'Winter Sunrise,' and 'The Tetons and Snake River.' Each was to be printed in an edition of 20, with 5 artist's proofs, using 20 by 24-inch paper. The printing of the editions began in 1975, and was expected to be finished by 1977 (cf. Lunn Gallery/Graphics International Ltd., Catalogue 5: 19^th and 20^th Century Photographs, Washington, D. C., 1976, pp. 161-63). The print of 'Winter Sunrise' offered here is from this large-format edition.