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

'Rocks, Sierra Foothills, California'

Auction Closed

December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'Rocks, Sierra Foothills, California'


gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, signed and titled in ink and with a Michael and Jeanne Adams collection stamp on the reverse, framed, 1945; accompanied by a certificate of provenance, signed by Michael and Jeanne Adams (2)

image: 7 1/2  by 9 3/8 in. (19.1 by 23.8 cm.)

frame: 18 3/4 by 23 in. (47.6 by 58.4 cm.)

Collection of Virginia Best Adams

By descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1980s

Acquired from the above, 2006

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 30 (this print)

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 270