Sale 9324
Los Angeles
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17 January 2001
Price realised
USD 3,760
Estimate
ANSEL ADAMS Sunrise, Mount Tom, Sierra Nevada (c.1948) Gelatin silver print. Printed later. Signed in ink on the mount; Carmel credit stamp with title in ink on the reverse of the mount. 15½ x 19½in. (39.4 x 49.5cm.) Framed.
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See: Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, p. 12; Stillman, Yosemite & the High Sierras, pl. 71.
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