Lot 31
  • 31

Ansel Adams

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • Ansel Adams
  • 'ARCHES, NORTH COURT, MISSION SAN XAVIER DEL BAC, TUCSON, ARIZONA'
  • Signed in pencil on the mount
  • Gelatin silver print
  • Approximately 15 x 19 inches
Plate 2 from Portfolio VII (New York: Parasol Press, an edition of 100 and 15 presentation copies, lettered A-O), gelatin silver print, mounted, signed and with plate number 'VII - 2' and edition 'J/115' in an unidentified hand in pencil on the mount, the portfolio stamp on the reverse, framed, 1968, printed in 1976

Literature

Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 404 (another print)

Condition

This photograph is in generally excellent condition. In raking light, a few small deposits of original retouching are visible. Also visible upon very close examination are 2 small scratches (each measuring approximately 1/4-inch) in the upper right corner and near the lower right edge; neither appears to break the emulsion. There is minor soiling on the reverse of the mount.
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