Ansel Adams (1902-1984) Moonrise. Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941. Silver print (c. 1973), mounted on card, signed in pencil lower right. Stamped "Photograph by Ansel Adams - Route I Box 181 Carmel, California 93921", title and date in ink on verso of mount with annotations by Lucien Clergue in pencil. 39 x 49.5 cm Provenance: Acquired directly by Lucien Clergue from Ansel Adams in 1975. Bibliography: - U.S. Camera 1943, New York, 1942, pp. 88-89. - Liliane de Cock, Ansel Adams, Hastings-on-Hudson, Morgan & Morgan, 1972, pl. 63. - Ansel Adams, Photographs of the Southwest, Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1976, pl. 55. - Martha A. Sandweiss, Masterworks of American Photography: The Amon Carter Museum Collection, Birmingham, Oxmoor House, 1982, pl. 125. - Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Boston, Little Brown, 1983, cover and p. 41. - James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, Boston, Little Brown, 1985, pl. 32. - Therese Mulligan and David Wooters, Photography from 1839 to Today, George Eastman House, Köln, Taschen, 2000, p. 643. - John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, San Francisco, SFMoMA, 2001, pl. 96. - Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams, Boston, Little Brown, 2012, p. 119. - Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams, New Haven, Yale University Press 2020, fig. 6.15.
Estimate
€20,000 - €30,000
Result
€45,500
Buyer's premium
30%
Ansel Adams (1902-1984)
Moonrise. Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941.
Silver print (c. 1973), mounted on card, signed in pencil lower right. Stamped "Photograph by Ansel Adams - Route I Box 181 Carmel, California 93921", title and date in ink on verso of mount with annotations by Lucien Clergue in pencil.
39 x 49.5 cm
Provenance:
Acquired directly by Lucien Clergue from Ansel Adams in 1975.
Bibliography:
- U.S. Camera 1943, New York, 1942, pp. 88-89.
- Liliane de Cock, Ansel Adams, Hastings-on-Hudson, Morgan & Morgan, 1972, pl. 63.
- Ansel Adams, Photographs of the Southwest, Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1976, pl. 55.
- Martha A. Sandweiss, Masterworks of American Photography: The Amon Carter Museum Collection, Birmingham, Oxmoor House, 1982, pl. 125.
- Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Boston, Little Brown, 1983, cover and p. 41.
- James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, Boston, Little Brown, 1985, pl. 32.
- Therese Mulligan and David Wooters, Photography from 1839 to Today, George Eastman House, Köln, Taschen, 2000, p. 643.
- John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, San Francisco, SFMoMA, 2001, pl. 96.
- Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams, Boston, Little Brown, 2012, p. 119.
- Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams, New Haven, Yale University Press 2020, fig. 6.15.
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