A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Masterworks

A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Masterworks

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Ansel Adams

Portfolio VI

Auction Closed

December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

Portfolio VI


(New York: Parasol Press, 1974, a total edition of 110), a portfolio of 10 gelatin silver prints, each mounted, signed and with sequential numbers and edition '40/110' in pencil on the mount, the portfolio stamp on the reverse, framed, 1932-53, printed in 1974; together with printed title, plate list, colophon, dedication to Gottardo Piazzoni and Edward Weston, and foreword by Beaumont and Nancy Newhall. Elephant folio, beige linen clamshell box

images: each approximately 19 3/4 by 15 1/4 in. (50.2 by 38.7 cm.) or the reverse

frames: each approximately 31 by 25 in. (78.7 by 63.5 cm.) or the reverse

Parasol Press, Ltd., Portland, 2006, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agent
John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), unpaginated
MAROON BELLS:

Salem, Peabody Essex Museum, Ansel Adams: At the Water’s Edge, June – October 2012

Greenwich, The Royal Museums Greenwich, Photography From the Mountains to the Sea, November 2012  – April 2013, and traveling thereafter to:

Sydney, Australian National Maritime Museum, July – December 2013

Modena, Fondazione Cassa de Risparmio de Modena, Ansel Adams La Natura è il mio Regno, September 2011 –  January 2012

ALDERS, PRAIRIE CREEK BEACH:

Modena, Fondazione Cassa de Risparmio de Modena, Ansel Adams La Natura è il mio Regno, September 2011 –  January 2012

1. Edward Weston, Carmel Highlands, California, 1945

2. Antelope House Ruin, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona, 1942

3. Maroon Bells, near Aspen, Colorado, 1951 4. Silverton, Colorado, 1951

5. Graduation Dress, Yosemite Valley, California, 1948

6. Still Life, San Francisco, circa 1932

7. White Post and Spandrel, Columbia, California, 1953

8. Alders, Prairie Creek Beach, Northern California, circa 1949

9. Fresh Snow, Yosemite Valley, California, circa 1947

10. Gottardo Piazzoni in His Studio, San Francisco, circa 1932 

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