Lot 3
  • 3

Ansel Adams

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • Ansel Adams
  • RAIN, BEARTRACK COVE, GLACIER BAY NATIONAL MONUMENT, ALASKA
  • Edition 10 of 63, of Portfolio II
    Signed lower right
  • Gelatin silver print
plate 10 from Portfolio Two, mounted, signed and with plate number in pencil on the mount, the portfolio stamp, with plate number and '63' in red pencil, on the reverse, 1949, printed in 1950, no. 63 in a total edition of 105 (400 Photographs, p. 237)

Condition

This print is in generally excellent condition. Upon close inspection, scattered tiny impressions and a small taupe-colored adhesion of indeterminate nature are visible. The mount is slightly darkened at the edges and is lightly sunned at the image periphery and portfolio stamp. There is a Robert Mann Gallery, New York, label on the reverse of the mat.
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