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

Ansel Adams

'Golden Gate Before the Bridge, San Francisco'

Auction Closed

February 17, 07:14 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'Golden Gate Before the Bridge, San Francisco'

gelatin silver print, mounted, signed and with title and date '1933' in pencil on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 7 and 8), titled and dated in ink on the reverse, framed, an Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, label on the reverse, circa 1932, probably printed between 1963 and 1970; accompanied by a certificate of provenance, signed by Michael and Jeanne Adams (2)

image: 15½ by 19½ in. (39.4 by 49.5 cm.)

frame: 31½ by 35½ in. (80 by 90.2 cm.)

Collection of Virginia Best Adams

By descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1980s

Acquired from the above, 2007

Lubbock, Texas Tech University, Ansel Adams: American Master, Selections from the David H. Arrington Collection, August 2015 – January 2016

Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada (1948), pl. 1

Making a Photograph (1948), p. 61

An Autobiography (1985), p. 114

A San Francisco Heritage (1987), pl. 2

Classic Images (1985), pl. 11

A Biography (1996), p. 114