Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
Ansel Adams
'The Golden Gate'
Lot Closed
October 5, 03:04 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
'The Golden Gate'
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed and titled in pencil on the mount, the photographer's San Francisco studio label (BMFA Label 3) on the reverse, 1932, probably printed before 1935
image: 6 ⅜ by 9 in. (16.2 by 22.9 cm.)
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 11
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 114
James and Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: A San Francisco Heritage (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1987), pl. 2
Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: A Biography (New York, 1996), unpaginated
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: California (Boston, 1997), p. 17
Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2005), pl. 21
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 175
Early prints of ‘The Golden Gate’ (often referred to as The Golden Gate Before the Bridge, San Francisco, California) are scarce. Only 3 other early prints are believed to have appeared at auction in the last 20 years.