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Ansel Adams

'Moonrise, Joshua Tree, The Nat'l. Mo., CA'

Auction Closed

December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'Moonrise, Joshua Tree, The Nat'l. Mo., CA'


gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 7 and 8), titled in ink, and a Michael and Jeanne Adams collection stamp on the reverse, 1948, probably printed between 1963 and 1970; accompanied by a certificate of provenance, signed by Michael and Jeanne Adams (2)

image: 7 1/2 by 9 1/8 in. (19.1 by 23.2 cm.)

frame: 17 by 21 in. (43.2 by 53.3 cm.)

Collection of Virginia Best Adams

By descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1980s

Acquired from the above, 2006

Modena, Fondazione Cassa de Risparmio de Modena, Ansel Adams La Natura è il mio Regno, September 2011 –  January 2012
Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 51

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 186

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 31