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

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

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Ansel Adams

'Golden Gate Bridge' (San Francisco, California)

Auction Closed

December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'Golden Gate Bridge' (San Francisco, California)


a unique Polaroid print, titled and inscribed 'For Scott S. F.' in ink, the photographer's 'Polaroid Land Photograph by Ansel Adams' stamps, titled, dated, and annotated in ink, on the reverse, overmatted, with the 'Photograph by Ansel Adams' stamp, signed by Virginia Best Adams in ink, framed, 1961; accompanied by a certificate of provenance, signed by Michael and Jeanne Adams (2)

image: 3 1/2 by 4 3/8 in. (8.9 by 11.1 cm.)

frame: 17 by 19 3/4 in. (43.2 by 50.2 cm.)

Collection of Virginia Best Adams

By descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1980s

Acquired from the above, 2006

Ansel Adams and Robert Baker, Polaroid Land Photography (Boston, 1978), figs. 7-4 A, B (variants)