Ansel Adams - Photographs New York Thursday, October 7, 2021 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Abby M. Taylor Fine Art, New York

  • Catalogue Essay

    The quote inscribed by Adams on the reverse of this print comes from Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Walking. The full context of the quote is as follows: 'The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild; and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World.'

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Golden Gate Headlands from Lincoln Park, San Francisco

circa 1950
Gelatin silver print, likely printed 1973-77.
15 1/4 x 18 3/8 in. (38.7 x 46.7 cm)
Signed in pencil on the mount; signed and inscribed 'The West of which I speak is but another name for the wild . . .' in ink, Carmel credit stamp (BMFA stamp 11), and titled and dated in an unidentified hand in ink, all on the reverse of the mount.

Estimate
$15,000 - 20,000 

Sold for $45,360

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Photographs

New York Auction 7 October 2021