Ansel Adams - Photographs New York Monday, April 9, 2018 | Phillips

Photographs

New York Auction 9 April 2018

  • Provenance

    Private Collection, Chicago

  • Literature

    Alinder and Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, pls. 39, 44
    Little, Brown and Company, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams, pls. 1-15 (Part III)
    Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, pp. 172, 179, 190, 214, 217- 218, 236- 237, 240, 258
    Szarkowski, Ansel Adams At 100, pls 28, 76, 80

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Ansel Adams

Portfolio Two: The National Parks and Monuments

1950
San Francisco: Self-published, 1950.
Fifteen gelatin silver prints.
Varying dimensions from 7 1/2 x 9 1/8 in. (19.1 x 23.2 cm) to 8 3/4 x 12 in. (22.2 x 30.5 cm) or the reverse
Each signed and numbered sequentially in pencil on the mount; each numbered '87' and sequentially 1-15 within the portfolio credit stamp on the reverse of the mount. Printed title page, introduction, and plate list, numbered ‘87' in red pencil. Enclosed within a folding silver-stamped cloth-covered-board case with ties. Number 87 from an edition of 100.

Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

Sold for $40,000

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New York Auction 9 April 2018