• Photographs Including Property auction at Christies

    Sale 14357

    Photographs Including Property Sold to Benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation

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    6 April 2017

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    • Ansel Adams (1902–1984)
    Lot 233

    Ansel Adams (1902–1984)

    The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 1942

    Price realised

    USD 50,000

    Estimate

    USD 30,000 - USD 50,000

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    Ansel Adams (1902–1984)
    The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 1942
    gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1960s–early 1970s
    signed in pencil (mount, recto); titled in ink in Carmel credit stamp [BMFA 7] (mount, verso)
    image/sheet: 15 1/2 x 19 1/8 in. (39.4 x 48.6 cm.)
    mount: 22 x 28 in. (55.9 x 71.1 cm.)

    Provenance

    Christie's, New York, May 6, 1985, lot 14;
    acquired from the above sale by the present owner.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams Letters and Images, 1916-1984, A New York Graphic Society Book/Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1988, p.331.
    Andrea Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams, 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 2007, p. 205 and cover.


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