Apr 18, 2013 - Sale 2311

Sale 2311 - Lot 187

Price Realized: $ 5,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
ADAMS, ANSEL (1902-1984)
"Mission San Xavier del Bac, Tucson, Arizona" * Architectural detail * Porch column and rose bush. Together, 3 Polaroids. Unique Type 55 print, Polaroid Type 53 print, and a Polaroid Type 52 print, 3 1/2x4 1/2 inches (8.9x11.4 cm.), and the reverse, the first with "Copy," possibly in Adams' hand, in ink, on verso; the second with technical notations, in ink, in an unknown hand, on recto; each framed, the first with a Polaroid Collection and Ansel Adams & Edwin Land exhibition labels and a Polaroid Collection hand stamp on verso. 1968; circa 1969; 1970s

Additional Details

From the Polaroid Collection.
Exhibited in Pittsburgh at "Ansel Adams at Silver Eye Center for Photography," November 1999-January 2000; Quito, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, sponsored by the Embassy of the United States, From the Polaroid Collection: Ansel Adams, October-November 2001, and traveling to 3 other venues through 2003 (the third print also exhibited here); Naples, Florida, Museum of Art, Ansel Adams and Edwin Land: Art, Science and Invention, Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, May-July 2004, and traveling to 8 other venues through 2007.
The first print also reproduced Singular Images, 43.
400 Photographs, 404.