Lot 171
  • 171

Ansel Adams 1902-1984

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Ansel Adams
  • 'tenaya creek, spring rain'
plate 7 from Portfolio Three (San Francisco, 1960), mounted, signed by the photographer in ink on the mount, the portfolio stamp, numbered in an unidentified hand in red ink, on the reverse, overmatted, framed, circa 1948, printed in 1959, no. 38 in a total edition of 208 (Portfolios, p. 47)

Condition

This print is in generally excellent condition. The overmat is affixed to the bottom half of the mount. The mount is lightly age-darkened within the overmat window. The back of the mount is lightly age-darkened along the right edge. Also on the back of the mount is a single strip of adhesive tape remnant lining the top edge.
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