Oct 04, 2012 - Sale 2288

Sale 2288 - Lot 143

Price Realized: $ 7,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
ADAMS, ANSEL (1902-1984)
"Fern Spring, Yosemite Valley." Silver print from a Polaroid Type 55 negative, 19 3/8x15 1/8 inches (49.2x38.4 cm.), with Adams's signature, in ink, on mount recto, and with his Carmel hand stamp with the title, in ink, and the Polaroid Collection and the Polaroid Land Photograph by Ansel Adams hand stamps, with printing notations, in ink, on mount verso. 1961; probably printed 1962-1963

Additional Details

with--"House, Gloucester, Massachusetts." Silver print from a Polaroid Type 54 negative, 15 5/8x19 3/8 inches (39.7x49.2 cm.), mounted to Crescent illustration board; with Adams's signature, in ink, on mount recto, and with his Carmel studio stamps with the title and notation, in ink, on mount verso. Circa 1962.
From the Polaroid Collection.
"Fern Spring:" 400 Photographs, 380; Yosemite: Ansel Adams, 47; Polaroid Land Photography, 4-3, 48; Singular Images, 48.