- 30
Ansel Adams
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- Ansel Adams
- 'HALF DOME--MOON, YOSEMITE VALLEY, CALIFORNIA'
- Gelatin silver print
mural-sized, mounted to Strathmore illustration board, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 7), titled in ink and initialed in pencil, on the reverse, 1960, probably printed between 1963 and 1973
Provenance
Acquired from Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, in the early 1990s
Exhibited
Gainesville, The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Ansel Adams: Visualizing the American Landscape, May – August 2004
Literature
Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 379
Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 115
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 132
Condition
This impressive, mural-sized selenium-toned print, on semi-matte-surface paper, is in generally excellent condition. When examined in high raking light, several tiny deposits of original retouching are visible, along with a slight mounting bubble, where either air or a particle has been trapped between the mount and photograph during the dry-mounting process.
There is faint soiling on the reverse of the mount.
Karen Haas's and Rebecca Senf's book, 'Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection,' publishes the most comprehensive list to date of the studio stamps and labels Adams used throughout his career. The authors' assessment of the use dates of stamp 7 on the reverse of the print's mount is 1963 to 1973.
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In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.