Ansel Adams

Still Life (plate 6 from Portfolio VI)

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December 16, 06:02 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a New York Collector

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

Still Life (plate 6 from Portfolio VI)

signed Ansel Adams, editioned 72/110 and numbered VI-6 (on the mount)

gelatin silver print

19½ by 14⅞ in.

49.5 by 37.8 cm.

Executed circa 1932, printed in 1974; this work is number 72 from an edition of 110, published by Parasol Press, Ltd., New York.

Sotheby's New York, 25 April 2007, Sale 8387, Lot 54

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Ansel Adams, Making a Photograph: An Introduction to Photography (How to Do It Series No. 8) (London and New York, 4th edition, 1948), p. 65

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 112

Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 319

John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), p. 102

Carmel, Center for Photographic Art, Ansel Adams: From the Private Collection of Margaret Weston, July - September 1995

San Francisco, The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams: From the Private Collection of Maggi Weston, May - September 1996