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Ansel Adams

Tree Detail (Birdwing Shape)

Auction Closed

February 17, 07:14 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

Tree Detail (Birdwing Shape)


gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, 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: 6¼ by 8¼ in. (15.9 by 21 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

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Ansel Adams at 100, August 2001 – January 2002, and traveling thereafter to:

The Art Institute of Chicago, February – June 2002

London, Hayward Gallery, July – September 2002

Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, October 2002 – January 2003

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February – April 2003

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, July – November 2003

Ansel at Adams at 100 (2001), pl. 42 (this print)