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Ansel Adams

'Rocks & Limpets, Point Lobos, Calif.'

Auction Closed

December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'Rocks & Limpets, Point Lobos, Calif.'


gelatin silver print from a Polaroid Type 55 negative, mounted to Crescent illustration board, signed in ink on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 5, 6, and 10), titled and annotated in ink, and the 'Polaroid Land Photograph by Ansel Adams' stamp on the reverse, framed, circa 1960, probably printed in 1962-63

image: 13 3/4 by 16 3/4 in. (34.9 by 42.5 cm.)

frame: 31 1/2 by 35 1/2 in. (80 by 90.2 cm.)

Christie's New York, 24 April 2007, Sale 1825, Lot 489, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agent
Modena, Fondazione Cassa de Risparmio de Modena, Ansel Adams La Natura è il mio Regno, September 2011 –  January 2012
Ansel Adams, Camera and Lens: The Creative Approach (New York, 1970), p. 15

Edwin Land, David H. McAlpin, Jon Holmes, and Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Singular Images (Dobbs Ferry, 1974), p. 47

Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 92