Lot 17
  • 17

Robert Adams

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Robert Adams
  • 'BOULDER COUNTY, COLORADO'
  • gelatin silver print
large-format, signed, titled, dated, and numbered '#2' in pencil and with the photographer's copyright/credit stamp, dated in pencil, on the reverse, 1973, printed in 1983 (To Make It Home, p. 65; The Place We Live, Vol. I, p. 91)

Provenance

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 1983

Condition

This print, on double-weight paper with a slightly glossy surface and with margins that are approximately 1/4-inch, is in generally excellent condition. There are additional annotations in pencil on the reverse: 'L84.9.2 p.5,' 'Robert Adams,' 'LA214.87,' and 'RA.186.4.'In the three-volume retrospective publication, 'The Place We Live,' this image has been titled "Burning Sludge, North of Denver, Colorado."
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