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

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

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Ansel Adams

Tree Detail, Sierra Nevada

Auction Closed

February 17, 07:14 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

Tree Detail, Sierra Nevada


gelatin silver print, mounted, the 'Photograph by Ansel Adams' stamp, signed by Virginia Best Adams in pencil, and a Michael and Jeanne Adams collection stamp on the reverse, framed, Museum of Modern Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art loan labels on the reverse, 1936; accompanied by a certificate of provenance, signed by Michael and Jeanne Adams (2)

image: 6¾ by 8¾ in. (17.1 by 22.2 cm.)

frame: 15¼ by 19¼ in. (38.7 by 48.9 cm.)

Collection of Virginia Best Adams

By descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1980s

Acquired from the above, 2006

Ansel Adams (1972), pl. 55

An American Place (1982), pl. 36

400 Photographs (2007), p. 120

Ansel Adams at 100 (2001), pl. 43 (this print)