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

Yosemite Valley From Inspiration Point, Winter, Yosemite National Park

Auction Closed

December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

Yosemite Valley From Inspiration Point, Winter, Yosemite National Park


mural-sized sepia-toned gelatin silver print, mounted to Homasote board, framed, circa 1940, probably printed in the 1950s

image: 82 1/2 by 118 3/4 in. (209.55 by 301.6 cm.)

frame: 84 3/4 by 120 3/4 in. (215.3 by 306.7 cm.)

Collection of Richard Lorenz, Oakland

Bonhams New York, 28 October 2008, Sale 16121, Lot 21, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agent

Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, The Pageant of History in Northern California (San Francisco, 1954), pl. 56 (variant)

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 287

Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 113 (variant)

Peter Galassi, Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley: Celebrating the Park at 150 (Boston, 2014), p. 189 (variant)