A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Photographs
A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Photographs
Ansel Adams
'Paul Masson Vineyards, Saratoga'
Auction Closed
February 17, 07:14 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
'Paul Masson Vineyards, Saratoga'
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamp, titled and dated in ink, on the reverse, framed, circa 1959, printed later
image: 15¾ by 19½ in. (40 by 49.5 cm.)
frame: 31⅜ by 35½ in. (79.7 by 90.2 cm.)
Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, 2007
Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, 2007
Lloyd Eric Reeve and Alice Means Reeve, The Gift of the Grape: Based on Paul Masson Vineyards (San Francisco, 1959), p. 37
In 1959, Ansel Adams was commissioned by Paul Masson Vineyards to photograph its winery. He asked his friend and fellow photographer Pirkle Jones to join the project. The resulting images document many of the processes necessary to produce a bottle of wine – from plowing a field with a workhorse to the picking of grapes to cellar storage. In the 1960s, the Smithsonian sponsored a traveling exhibition of these photographs titled 'The Story of a Winery.'