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

'Trees And Cliffs of Eagle Peak, Winter' (horizontal)

Auction Closed

December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'Trees And Cliffs of Eagle Peak, Winter' (horizontal)


gelatin silver print, mounted, the photographer's Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 11), with title and date in pencil, and a Michael and Jeanne Adams collection stamp on the reverse, framed, circa 1935, probably printed between 1973 and 1977; accompanied by a certificate of provenance, signed by Michael and Jeanne Adams (2)

image: 4 3/4 by 6 3/4 in. (12.1 by 15.2 cm.)

frame: 20 3/4 by 17 in. (52.7 by 43.2 cm.)

Collection of Virginia Best Adams

By descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1980s

Acquired from the above, 2007

Ansel Adams and John Muir, Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada (Boston, 1948), pl. 34

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 16

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 127