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Lot 151

Ansel Adams
(1902-1984)
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico

9 April 2021, 11:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$69,062.50 inc. premium

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Ansel Adams (1902-1984)

Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, c. 1941
Gelatin silver print, mounted on Hi-Art illustration board, printed c. 1970, signed in ink on the mount; titled in ink and Carmel credit stamp on the mount verso.
15 1/4 x 19 3/8in (38.7 x 49.3cm)
mount 22 x 28in (55.9 x 71.1cm)

Footnotes

Provenance
From the artist;
to Lee Witkin (a birthday gift);
to a private collection, New York;
to the present owner

Literature
Alinder, Ansel Adams, 1902-1984, The Friends of Photography, 1984, p. 55 Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, Little, Brown and Co., 1988, p. 142
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co, 1989, cover and p. 40
Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Little, Brown and Co., 2001, pl. 96

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